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- We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,…
- From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a…
- The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from…
- One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
- The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
- Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make…
- If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
More Most Quotes
- 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