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 speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • English
  • Speak
  • Languages

• And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • America
  • Hope
  • Lies

• The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Wall

• 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
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