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- The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should…
- The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
- If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
- Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is…
- I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to…
- The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;…
- Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
- There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
- Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we…
- In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right…
- When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
- What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail…
- ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that…
- It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and…
- The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
- The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
- Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If…
- Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the…
- ...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
- I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden