Certain Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

— Edmund Burke

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are…

— Thomas Paine

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

— Samuel Smiles

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in…

— Woodrow Wilson

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and…

— George Grenville

If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the…

— John Galt

“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of…

— Paul Johnson

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

— Alexander Pope