Which Quotes
- Page 37Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright Edelman
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Richard Dawkins
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Gissing
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens