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- The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
- A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely…
- It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
- No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
- The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
- The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions…
- The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more…
- Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently…
- The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no…
- It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
- The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
- Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
- War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net…
- If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
- Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his…
- No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,…
- For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and…
- Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
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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