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- Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
- In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the…
- Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
- The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
- What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can…
- "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual-…
- The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is…
- Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than…
- The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest…
- For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of…
- Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
- We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to…
- Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
- Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that…
- An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
- The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no…
- A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority…
- Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
- You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less…
- The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
- One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully…
- Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
- Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have…
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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
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle