Quotations
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Philosophical quotes to make you think...
There are 21 quotations in this collection:
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
- Karl Marx
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
- George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell
Rustystan says:
Why i respect the army
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains (Du Contrat social)
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
- Karl Marx
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism
- P D James
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
- Jesus Christ
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party. - Thrasymachus in The Republic.
- Plato
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
Rustystan says:
Keeps me going at work
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin
Rustystan says:
Sad but true, said by the man himself. Millions 'disappeared' in Stalinist Russia
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rustystan says:
True, though not by bringing it in, rather by labelling that which already existed
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rustystan says:
By throwing him in the lake
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
- C S Lewis
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr
