Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell,… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus… — Horace Copy Share Image
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“What he offered me is not for me to keep, but for me to give to another.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
“A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
