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- One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all…
- The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to…
- But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the…
- Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even…
- It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of…
- The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
- The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
- To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the…
- When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to…
- In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if…
- Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the…
- Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures,…
- A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between…
- That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of…
- Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over…
- All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility, discourages…
- We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.
- I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism…
- No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
- How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I…
- The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
- I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing…
- All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
- To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes…
- A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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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