Quotes · Skopia

10,075 quotes

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Declaration of Independence

1776

★ 10.0

Speech · Political speech

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream · 1963

★ 9.9

Economic literature

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 9.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jesus

John 3:16 · 90

★ 9.9

Scientific literature

There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species · 1859

★ 9.8

Philosophical literature

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 9.8

Novel · Dystopian fiction

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 9.8

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.8

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Socrates

Plato, Theaetetus · 400 BC

★ 9.7

Song · Pop music

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.

John Lennon

Imagine · 1971

★ 9.7

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 9.7

Speech · Political speech

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933

★ 9.6

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan · 1651

★ 9.6

Poem · Philosophical literature

And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king.

Denis Diderot

1772

★ 9.6

Poem

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

1969

★ 9.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 9.5

Play · History play

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1839

★ 9.5

Poem

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken · 1916

★ 9.5

Play · Tragic play · Greek theater

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Sophocles

441 BC

★ 9.5

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

Walt Whitman

1888

★ 9.4

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

Plato, Theaetetus · 420 BC

★ 9.4

Speech

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

1947

★ 9.4

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1762

★ 9.4

Speech · Political speech

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln · 1865

★ 9.3

Sonnet · Poem

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the end of Being and ideal Grace.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1850

★ 9.3

Political literature · Economic literature

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!

Karl Marx

1883

★ 9.3

Scripture · Religious literature

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Jesus

Matthew 19:24 · 60

★ 9.3

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Know thyself.

Thales

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 9.3

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 9.2

Philosophical literature

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Metaphysics · 322 BC

★ 9.2

Poem · Epic poem

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 9.2

Song · Protest music · Folk music

For the loser now will be later to win, For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1964

★ 9.2

Speech · Political speech

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

1863

★ 9.2

Novel

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 9.2

Novel · Allegory · Dystopian fiction

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Animal Farm · 1945

★ 9.1

Letter

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson

1787

★ 9.1

Philosophical literature

I think, therefore I am.

Rene Descartes

Discourse on Method · 1637

★ 9.1

Article · Newspaper

History is written by the winners.

George Orwell

1944

★ 9.1

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