Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 3120.
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The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
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The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Source: On War (1832) -
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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