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Historical Figures Quotes |
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value
of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his
punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea
at all.
Oscar Wilde
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us
in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people
for the people.
Oscar Wilde
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated
his ability.
Oscar Wilde
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs
forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older
than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him,
believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive
them of their arms.
Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be
found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government
to the utmost.
Aristotle
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their
form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into
despotisms.
Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to
train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from
getting more.
Aristotle
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class
is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed
the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Smedley Butler
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense
of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Smedley Butler
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is
the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Butler
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline
and nothing else.
Smedley Butler
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I love America more than any other country in
the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful,
and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing
to lose.
James A. Baldwin
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses
to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to
become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin
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