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One Quotes by George Mikes
- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
- Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised…
- There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.
- In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with…
- If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at…
- On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?"…
- The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other…
- Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
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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
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle