Quotes 4161 till 4180 of 12035.
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Source: Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859) -
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
Source: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) -
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
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If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
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If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
Source: In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179 -
If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
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If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
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