Quotes · Skopia

26 quotes

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Wendell Willkie

1943

★ 1.8

Courtroom speech · Speech

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene Debs

1918

★ 1.9

Standup comedy · Comedy

Really the only time to ever drink a shot is never. No one's ever drank a shot and then done something they're proud of.

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed · 2014

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

1990

★ 2.8

Political literature

It is for us... To inquire constantly and persistently, when theories of national power or states' rights are propounded: "What interests are behind them and to whose advantage will changes or the maintenance of old forms accrue?" By refusing to do this we become victims of history-clay in the hands of its makers.

Charles A. Beard

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States · 1935

★ 3.4

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests has said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits to thought." The Greeks said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought."

Edith Hamilton

The Greek Way · 1930

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking, But now, God knows, Anything goes.

Cole Porter

Anything Goes · 1934

★ 3.5

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

William Cuppy

1941

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, Don't fence me in.

Cole Porter

Don't Fence Me In · 1944

★ 3.5

Standup comedy · Comedy

It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive."

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed · 2014

★ 3.5

Standup comedy · Comedy

We go to bars so we can behave like children, toddlers, really. You ever go to a bar at 2am? You might as well be picking up a kid at nursery school.

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed · 2014

★ 3.5

Poem

Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place, The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face.

James Whitcomb Riley

1883

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook

It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

Just One of Those Things · 1935

★ 3.5

"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

1898

★ 3.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind · 1987

★ 3.6

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

1931

★ 4.3

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

1957

★ 4.4

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

Dan Quayle

1989

★ 4.4

Courtroom speech · Speech

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

1918

★ 5.1

Song · Great American songbook

Birds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

Let's Do It · 1928

★ 5.1

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

Desiderata · 1933

★ 5.1

Novel

Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Kurt Vonnegut

1965

★ 5.2

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind · 1987

★ 5.2

Philosophical literature

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

Allan Bloom

1987

★ 5.3

Novel

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ · 1880

★ 6.1

Song · Rock music

Oh yeah, life goes on long after the thrill of livin' is gone.

John Mellencamp

Jack and Diane · 1982

★ 6.2

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