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- We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our…
- Heartbreak is life educating us.
- We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
- If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
- It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of…
- Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an…
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
- Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
- I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power…
- Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade…
- We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable…
- Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
- Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
- We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
- While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
- We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
- God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
- Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
- Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong