Category: Verbatim
Quote du Jour
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
— Guido Bruno (1548-burned at the stake 1600), Italian philosopher
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History and the mission of the future no longer mean the struggle of class against class, the struggle of church dogma against dogma, but the clash between blood and blood, race and race, people and people.
— Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), German Nazi leader, editor
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
— Eric Hoffer
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What will people say — in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
— Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882), German novelist
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written: it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and the golf course.
— A.A. Milne
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
— Desmond Tutu, Bishop of Johannesburg
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The type of character produced by wealth lies on the surface for all to see. Wealthy men are insolent and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel as if they had every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a standard of value for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is nothing they cannot buy. They are luxurious and ostentatious … ostentatious and vulgar.
In a word, the type of character produced by wealth is that of a fool.
