Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

Anon.


Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.

Aldous Huxley


The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea

Konrad Adenauer


Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

Ronald Reagan


Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

Benjamin Disraeli


Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Hellen Keller


It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Henri Bergson


There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Blaise Pascal


If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

George Orwell


Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

German Proverb


Charity sees the need not the cause.

Plato, The Republic


The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

George Eliot


The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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