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Inspirational Quotes by Isabel Paterson
- Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
- An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
- Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.
- The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
- The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
- If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
- People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.
- One genius is about all a house will hold.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento