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Masters Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and…
- When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
- Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in…
- How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this… — Christian Bale
- Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
- It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr
- Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton