Quotes with worst

Quotes 161 till 180 of 272.

• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  John Adams
  President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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• The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

  Nancy Reagan
  American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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• The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  Beau Willimon
  American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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• The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

  Bryant H. McGill
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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• The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart.

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

  Joyce Carol Oates
  American writer (1938 - )
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• The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

  Jacques Bossuet
   
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• The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

  John Lennon
  British musician (1940 - 1980)
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• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

  Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184

  John Sterling
  Scottish author (1938 - )
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• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
  

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

  Henrik Ibsen
  Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''

  John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

  Edgar W. Howe
  American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

  Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

  Maggie Kuhn
  American activist (1905 - 1995)
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• The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'

  King Lear IV, 1

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• uncontrollable
• homesickness
• occasionally
• politicians
• derangement
• self-denial

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