All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian…

“She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or…

— Alan DeNiro

The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of…

— Noah Webster

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty…

— Bill O'Reilly

I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide…

— Antonin Kratochvil

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others,…

— Diogenes

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

— John Lubbock

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

— Saadi

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval,…

— Johannes Kepler

The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture…

— Billy Graham

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

— George Washington

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

— Emile Durkheim

“If your mind is not in the present time, your body will look like a dead body, cold and insensible!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind…

— Winifred Holtby

Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for…

— Miguel de Cervantes