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Politics256 quotes

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920 Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. — Winston Churchill · 1947 From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs! — Karl Marx · 1883 A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787 Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle · 350 BC All 256 quotes →

Love242 quotes

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 Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BC Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BC I have also decided to stick with love...hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967 Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987 My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597 All 242 quotes →

Political theory233 quotes

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs! — Karl Marx · 1883 A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787 Democracy passes into despotism. — Socrates · 375 BC No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BC What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party. — Thrasymachus · 375 BC Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. — James Madison · 1788 All 233 quotes →

American politics200 quotes

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 · 1865 We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln · 1861 And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy · 1961 When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. — Declaration of Independence · 1776 We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare; and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. — Constitution of the United States · 1787 But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. — Abraham Lincoln · 1863 All 200 quotes →

The human condition160 quotes

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes 9:11 · 931 BC The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854 Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows. — Hesiod · 700 BC So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? — William Shakespeare · 1616 All 160 quotes →

Men and women137 quotes

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve · 1697 I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no girl reaction. — The Rolling Stones · 1965 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen · 1813 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600 Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony · 1868 The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want? — Sigmund Freud · 1925 All 137 quotes →

War135 quotes

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979 The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1918 There are no atheists in the fox holes. — William Thomas Cummings · 1943 War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. — Karl Von Clausewitz · 1833 If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight. — Herodotus · 430 BC Carthage must be destroyed. — Cato the Elder · 149 BC All 135 quotes →

Human nature130 quotes

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 · 1882 All men by nature desire to know. — Aristotle · 322 BC Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle · 350 BC Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. — Charles Darwin · 1871 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — Genesis 1:26-27 · 1405 BC All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BC All 130 quotes →

Freedom124 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 Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 I am condemned to be free. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1943 The basis of a democratic state is liberty. — Aristotle · 350 BC Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. — Pericles · 430 BC The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never without a wave. — Thomas Jefferson · 1820 All 124 quotes →

Death123 quotes

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940 This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999 He gave up the ghost. — Luke 23:46 · 61 Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599 I am Death. — Death · 1957 Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. — Francis Bacon · 1625 All 123 quotes →

Art117 quotes

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BC The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom. — Friedrich Schiller · 1794 The greatness of art, like poetry or music, is that it is totally unnecessary. — Christo · 2011 Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso · 1945 Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. — Susan Sontag · 1973 In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti All 117 quotes →

Progress113 quotes

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong · 1969 I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker · 1853 I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963 Come mothers and fathers, Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964 If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton · 1676 Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. — Frederick Douglass · 1857 All 113 quotes →

Life112 quotes

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854 This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999 What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881 Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789 They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin · 1941 All 112 quotes →

Marriage92 quotes

Prenuptial agreement. Everybody needs a prenup! People think you gotta be rich to get a prenup, oh no! You got 20 million, your wife want 10, big deal, you ain't starvin'. But if you make 30 thousand, and your wife want 15, you might have to kill her! — Chris Rock · 1996 Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us together today. Mawage, that blessed awangement, that dweam wifin a dweam. — The Impressive Clergyman · 1987 If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008 The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015 In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott · 1880 All 92 quotes →

God90 quotes

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 · 1882 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. — Psalm 23:1-6 · 450 BC All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BC For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — Agathon Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265 "Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882 All 90 quotes →

America87 quotes

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door! — Emma Lazarus · 1883 At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. — Abraham Lincoln · 1838 I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America. — Langston Hughes · 1926 I believe in America. — Amerigo Bonasera · 1972 This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters; This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie · 1945 All 87 quotes →

Women83 quotes

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve · 1697 O fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667 What the fuck do women want? I know what you want: everything. — Chris Rock · 1999 Frailty, thy name is woman! — William Shakespeare · 1616 That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895 All 83 quotes →

Man and animals79 quotes

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man. — Sophocles · 441 BC There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. — Herman Melville · 1851 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. — Genesis 1:28 · 1405 BC We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. — William Ralph Inge · 1920 A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532 It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960 All 79 quotes →

God and man72 quotes

All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BC Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. — Homer · 700 BC Our heart is restless until it rests in you. — St. Augustine · 400 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. — Proverbs 3:5-6 · 686 BC God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1838 If cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own. — Xenophanes All 72 quotes →

Law71 quotes

Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins. — John Locke · 1690 A government of laws, and not of men. — John Adams · 1775 The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women. — Catharine MacKinnon · 1983 The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science. — Charles Macklin · 1759 I fought the law, and the law won. — The Crickets · 1961 The law may... Depend on what the judge has had for breakfast. — Robert Maynard Hutchins · 1933 All 71 quotes →

Relationships70 quotes

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600 Relationships: easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Cause it’s hard to keep up the lie. 'Cause you can't get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can't get nobody lookin' like you look, actin' like you act, soundin' like you sound. That's right, when you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative! — Chris Rock · 1999 Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1939 We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1909 I don't have a girlfriend, I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999 You make me want to be a better man. — Melvin Udall · 1997 All 70 quotes →

Truth70 quotes

You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992 Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. — Mark Twain · 1897 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” — Pontius Pilate · 90 The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — Herbert Agar · 1942 The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — David Foster Wallace · 1996 How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 All 70 quotes →

Happiness65 quotes

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. — Pericles · 430 BC He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. — James Joyce · 1915 To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin · 1979 Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. — William Blake · 1805 How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. — Nikos Kazantzakis · 1946 Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish. — Sigmund Freud · 1898 All 65 quotes →

Nature of God64 quotes

For I am the Lord, I change not. — Malachi 3:6 · 424 BC If cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own. — Xenophanes There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893 God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1846 A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing. Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther · 1529 God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father. — Sigmund Freud · 1913 All 64 quotes →

Democracy63 quotes

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. — Winston Churchill · 1947 Democracy passes into despotism. — Socrates · 375 BC The basis of a democratic state is liberty. — Aristotle · 350 BC Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775 For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681 What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989 All 63 quotes →

Nature62 quotes

Nature abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677 No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793 Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake · 1807 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the Lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron · 1818 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 The pebble is a perfect creature equal to itself mindful of its limits filled exactly with a pebbly meaning — Zbigniew Herbert · 1966 All 62 quotes →

Time60 quotes

Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180 Time, the devourer of all things. — Ovid · 8 Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1860 Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz · 1856 Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Marthe Troly-Curtin · 1912 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648 All 60 quotes →

Courage59 quotes

Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BC God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1932 Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. — Marcus Aurelius · 180 Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. — Pericles · 430 BC What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881 I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854 All 59 quotes →

Personal growth57 quotes

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. — Frank McKinney Hubbard · 1913 She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. — Jonathan Franzen · 2001 Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius · 180 I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a. M. Of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. — Joan Didion · 1968 And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Elizabeth Appell · 1979 Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow · 1966 All 57 quotes →

Friendship56 quotes

One soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Rick Blaine · 1942 Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BC If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. — Epictetus · 135 The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841 Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946 All 56 quotes →