John Adams Quotes

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams

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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Jack Nicholson
- People
- Life
- Celebrity
For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

Laura Trott
- People
- House
- Attention
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx
- Age
- Ideas
- Class
I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

Karen Handel
- World
- Believe
- Society
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

Ilan Stavans
- World
- American
- Jews
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Ed Miliband
- School
- Power
- Sun