Sarah Vowell Quotes
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
Sarah Vowell
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Tamra Davis
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Halsey
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Felicity Kendal
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D. B. Weiss
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Ted Cruz
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Sam Houston
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Karen DeCrow
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Tatiana Maslany
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Haile Selassie
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Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Frances Beinecke
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Immanuel Kant
The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.
Walter Bagehot
A member of the community should conduct himself always by word, mind and body in such a fashion that it results in help to the society. He should also make his own men understand this.
Ramana Maharshi
If you say to me that men are so made that the strongest kicks the weakest in the teeth and then the strongest survive, and go on to argue that if you apply this to economics you will get a happy society, you have done an irreparable wrong as we know, as we have seen.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand.
Confucius
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
Confucius
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
Sarah Vowell
