Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Lies
  • Agreed

• What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Small
  • Lies
  • Leading

• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Lies

• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Lies

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Victory

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Lies
  • Human
  • Religions

• People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lies

• I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Lies

• When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Great
  • May
  • Faith

• Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

  

  Paddy Mitchell
  • Art
  • Giving

• The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Lies
  • Languages