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- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people…
- The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
- Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
- Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
- All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who…
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is)…
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
- Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we…
- A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels…
- Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
- Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
- It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
- Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On…
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it…
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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