Aristotle Quotes
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
Aristotle
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Walter Bagehot
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Yuri Milner
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Orlando Bloom
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Naomi Watts
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
Anne McCaffrey
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Alfred Einstein
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
Vivien Leigh
The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes - ideals for heroes - and they don't need to be told elaborate lies.
Jessica Lynch
Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.
William Francis Buckley
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
Aristotle
