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- A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
- All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
- After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
- Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe.…
- Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
- Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
- The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
- Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the…
- Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to…
- I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
- The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
- The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon…
- I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate…
- Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart…
- ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
- I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
- On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions…
- He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and…
- The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
- He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he…
- The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,…
- This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the…
- From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions,…
- So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster