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- Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
- Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had…
- All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
- In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
- The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not…
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,…
- All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion…
- All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color…
- All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of…
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over
- The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
- The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that…
- The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure…
- Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
- I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle