Read my lips: no new taxes.
George H. W. BushWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert CamusI have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert SchweitzerTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous HuxleyI don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinPhilosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen HawkingYou cannot step into the same river twice.
HeraclitusI have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
Frank OceanThe Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai LamaAn asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard ShawWhat then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James MadisonObamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.
John KennedyNo one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
PlatoThe proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack LondonThe most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. MenckenI really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
Vivienne WestwoodIf we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.
Kanye WestIn every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.
Pope FrancisGovernance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.
Jimmy CarterWe are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Franz KafkaI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao TzuIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William JamesChance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
VoltaireTrue virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch SpinozaEvery philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand RussellSocialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillHe that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOne word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.
Dan QuayleInterdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma GandhiLeaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. MaxwellPeople forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.
George W. BushThis is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLeaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry KissingerWhen our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘
Brian EnoWhat we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
Abraham MaslowGray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAs president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
Barack ObamaThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnThe President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
Harry S. TrumanI would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
Clint EastwoodWhether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
AristotleAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsOne must steer, not talk.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDon’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham LincolnListen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.
Kamala HarrisThe reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan WattsLife is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody AllenAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerGood men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel KantObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusI don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.
Christopher HitchensI like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob DylanOver grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George WashingtonIt is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon