Adam Weishaupt Quotes

In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.

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• They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Internet
  • Name
  • Cloud

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Most
  • Australia
  • Countryside

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor
  • Scared
  • Vacation

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Women
  • Decisions

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • School
  • Girl
  • Popular

• I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo

• Intimate scenes are always super awkward - and that is the truth. I know everybody says it, but it really is true.

  

  Meghann Fahy
  • Truth
  • True

• I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Trying
  • Free
  • Japanese

• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Time
  • Pride
  • Duty

• In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
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