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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
-
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
-
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
-
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?
-
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
-
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
-
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.
-
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.
-
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
-
The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
-
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full 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.
-
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
-
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
-
People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
-
When I grow too old and dull to rock 'n rollLike to hold on tight to you darlingAnd when my fires have all burned outI'd like to think I can still think aboutThe things I used to sing aboutWhen I was spending all my time aloneBy myself and on my ownSeldom seen and quite unknown.
-
The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.
-
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
-
He objected on principle to the powerful.
-
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
-
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
