"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

People, Banks, Will

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

People, Kings

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Goodness

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Books, Gifts

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Acting, Being, Name

"Most people are nice and just want to have a chat."

Ben Nicholas, Australian Actor

People, Want

Explore more quotes by Lord Acton

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."

Faith, Government, Profession, Public

"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

Reading, Writing

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought."

Power, Liberty, Right

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."

Freedom, End, Liberty

"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Development, Ignorance, Will

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power,

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

People, Banks, Will

"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

Society, Morality, Consequences, Evil

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power,

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."

History, Soul, Burden, Memory