top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
Standard
Customized
More
"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward another person, think about their inner state. Do not think about yourself, or that you want to prove yourself right. In your quiet, inner thoughts, try to find the good in others. Do not say anything bad about others, even in your own thoughts. When you interact with a person, try to find as much common ground as possible, the more the better, and try to nurture this feeling. To cease being angry with a person and instead to seek peace, forgiveness and love toward him, remind yourself of any sins you may have in common and compare them."
Spiritual
"Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!"
Philosophy
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Family
"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."
Character
"Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
Philosophy
"Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass."
Nature
"When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed."
History
"Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be."
Social
"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
Virtue
"Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the story of how I murdered my wife, They asked me in court how I killed her, what I used to do it with. Imbeciles! They thought I killed her that day, the fifth of October, with a knife. It wasn't that day I killed her, it was much earlier. Exactly in the same way as they're killing their wives now, all of them..."
Crime
bottom of page