Quotes 121 till 140 of 10185.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
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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.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51 -
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
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