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Them Quotes by Julian Baggini
- Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us…
- People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of…
- Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule…
- You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to…
- It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
- True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you…
- If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al,…
- No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and…
- The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing…
- When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster