He Quotes
13080 quotes by 6736 authors
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly…
— Hannah Arendt
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
— J. J. Abrams
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
— Aristophanes
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
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He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by…
— Aristotle
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in…
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for…
— Aristotle
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
— Karen Armstrong
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He…
— Karen Armstrong
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
— Lance Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison…
— Johann Arndt
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
— Matthew Arnold
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