Quotes · Skopia

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The Forgotten Man... Delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... But he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

William Graham Sumner

1883

★ 0.9

Religious literature

You will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't.

Lorenzo Dow

Reflections on the Love of God · 1833

★ 1.1

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

1848

★ 1.1

Sociology

Ethnocentrism is the...view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways · 1906

★ 1.7

Sociology · Historical literature

Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

William Graham Sumner

1906

★ 1.8

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

Elizabeth Fry

1848

★ 1.9

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

J.P. Morgan

1930

★ 1.9

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best, after all.

Benjamin Spock

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care · 1946

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson

The Guardian · 1962

★ 1.9

Press conference

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, March 22, 1990 · 1990

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.

George H.W. Bush

1991 State of the Union Address · 1991

★ 1.9

To learning & law, there's no greater foe than they that nothing know.

Robert Greene

1592

★ 1.9

Poem

The people people choose for friends Your common sense appall, But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1899

★ 1.9

Psychological literature

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care · 1946

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush · 1989

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.

George H.W. Bush

1991

★ 1.9

Sermon · Religious literature

The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God.

Jonathan Edwards

Men Naturally God's Enemies · 1736

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

1951

★ 2.0

Religious literature

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Julian of Norwich

Revelatons of Divine Love · 1395

★ 2.1

Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.

Robert P. Porter

1891

★ 2.6

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