Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939