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Democracy4 quotes
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H.L. Mencken · 1916Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1944Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. — E.B. White · 1944Love4 quotes
What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star. — Sinclair Lewis · 1927Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul. — Bessie Head · 1973Love is a thing.
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal
Whose flame creeps in at every hole. — George Peele · 1591Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. — Iris Murdoch · 1959Nature of love3 quotes
What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star. — Sinclair Lewis · 1927Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul. — Bessie Head · 1973Love is a thing.
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal
Whose flame creeps in at every hole. — George Peele · 1591Nature of democracy2 quotes
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. — E.B. White · 1944Nature of law2 quotes
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely. — Robert Bolt · 1960Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1273Nature of man2 quotes
Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1860My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats. — James Boswell · 1773Nature of war2 quotes
War is capitalism with the gloves off. — Tom Stoppard · 1974We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide. — Ramsay MacDonald · 1930Political theory2 quotes
Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1944Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin · 1917Politics2 quotes
Politics is show business for ugly people. — Bill Miller · 1991Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1944Taste2 quotes
Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations... Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times. — Clement Greenberg · 1939Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful. — Susan Sontag · 1964Adaptability1 quote
Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1860Being present1 quote
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders · 1957Being single1 quote
A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone. — Larry David · 2011Camp1 quote
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful. — Susan Sontag · 1964Capitalism1 quote
Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin · 1917Charm1 quote
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. — Albert Camus · 1956Civilization1 quote
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand · 1943Comedy1 quote
Tragedy plus time equals comedy. — Steve Allen · 1957Communism1 quote
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. — Vladimir Lenin · 1920Conservation1 quote
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. — Aldo Leopold · 1949Conversation1 quote
Conversation... Is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all. — Guy de Maupassant · 1876Cooking1 quote
My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats. — James Boswell · 1773Courage1 quote
Who has knowledge of what is to be dreaded and what is not—the man whom I call courageous? — Nicias · 380 BCCourage vs. fear1 quote
Who has knowledge of what is to be dreaded and what is not—the man whom I call courageous? — Nicias · 380 BCCourtship and dating1 quote
A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone. — Larry David · 2011Cowardice1 quote
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway · 1942Crime1 quote
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. — Emma Goldman · 1910Critics1 quote
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. — Kenneth Tynan · 1963Curiosity1 quote
Curiosity...is a Lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Death1 quote
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time. — Ivan Turgenev · 1860