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- Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth…
- To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern…
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I…
- Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those…
- It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall…
- I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till…
- It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
- I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...
- If you thirst you may drink.
- Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.
- By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men…
- Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
- All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
- We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
- A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we…
- Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still…
- Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else…
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level…
- Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude…
- A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong