Quotes with general

  • Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
  • The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
  • Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
  • Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
  • The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
  • A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
  • With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Voltaire In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sun Tzu The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Sun Tzu The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Joseph Addison Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Douglas Macarthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Algernon Sydney A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
    Source: On War (1832) Ch. 17
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Adam Baldwin A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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