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- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to…
- The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
- The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob…
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
- We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote…
- The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or…
- The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active…
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.The being…
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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