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- We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is…
- I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not…
- Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to…
- Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
- The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for…
- It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
- A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and…
- Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched…
- I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you…
- When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
- When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane…
- Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
- Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without…
- We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
- Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
- I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when…
- My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
- In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by…
- Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man…
- If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour