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- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they…
- There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death.…
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of…
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that…
- The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy,…
- If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory…
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- 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 average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
- [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
- 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…
- What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
- The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
- The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
- To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority…
- The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly…
- To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
- Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
- Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
- Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur