Confidence Quote by Norm MacDonald

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling…

— Adam Weishaupt

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“He is not pestered by the banal desires common to all men; he is tempted by the greatest, the most momentous, messianic temptations; they…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is…

— Norm MacDonald

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary…

— David Hume

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

— Anonymous

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common…

— Benjamin Franklin

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe,…

— Jean Cocteau

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks…

— Janet Frame

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces…

— John Steinbeck

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has…

— Samuel Johnson