The best way to put more money in people’s wallets is to leave it there in the first place.
—Edwin Feulner (American Political Scientist)
It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
—Jim Leach (American Politician)
The vicious obey their passions as slaves do their masters.
—Diogenes Laertius (Greek Biographer)
The circumstances of the world are so variable, that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
—William H. Seward (American Statesman)
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
—Yehuda Bauer (Israeli Historian)
Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words—even provocative or repugnant ones—are not violence.
—Douglas Murray (British Author)
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
—Frederick II of Prussia (Prussian King)
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
—Daniel Webster (American Statesman, Lawyer)
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
—Margaret Mead (American Cultural Anthropologist)
Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
—Statius (Roman Poet)
Wicked people decry a modest person as dull, a person observing religious vows as showy, a holy person as a charlatan, a brave one as cruel, a hermit as foolish, a soft-spoken person as meek, a bright one as vain, an orator as a glib-talker and a patient person as weak. Is there any quality of the virtuous that the wicked do not condemn?
—Bhartrihari (Hindu Philosopher, Grammarian)
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
—Peter S. Beagle (American Author)
To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader)