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- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life…
- An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds…
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
- The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
- There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to…
- There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he…
- A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood…
- If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
- The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.
- On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to…
- All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it…
- He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
- What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
- Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.
- The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the…
- No man ever quite believes in any other man.
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed…
- I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free…
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is…
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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