Doe Quotes
16709 Doe quotes by 7013 unique authors
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the…
— Saint Augustine
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
— Thomas Huxley
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.…
— Richard Dawkins
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If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the…
— Mao Zedong
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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows…
— John Donne
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
— George Santayana
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard…
— Bernard Berenson
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on…
— Elbert Hubbard
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps…
— Nils Kjaer
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are…
— Tertullian
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe,…
— Tertullian
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she…
— Moliere
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
— Michel de Montaigne
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There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
— Aristotle
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what…
— Marilyn Manson
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Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps…
— Diogenes
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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not…
— Blaise Pascal
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Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away
— Jim Cramer
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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say,…
— Saint Augustine
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