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- Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the…
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
- Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
- I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the…
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get…
- April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world…
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,…
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
- The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the…
- whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other…
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
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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