Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949
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There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbThe ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbOne great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCThe less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938