It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
