Miguel Delibes: A people without literature is a mute people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3830
Joseph Conrad: It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3831
Joseph Conrad: What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3832
Joseph Conrad: The imbecile bourgeoisie of this country make themselves the accomplices of the very people whose aim is to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches. And they have the political power still, if they only had the sense to use it for their preservation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3833
Joseph Conrad: The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3834
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Joseph Conrad: You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3836
Turkish proverb: The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. - anonymous https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3837
Turkish proverb: When a clown moves into a palace, the clown doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. - anonymous https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3838
Jonathan Swift: Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3839
Jonathan Swift: Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3840
Jonathan Swift: Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. But in oratory the greatest art is to hide art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3841
Marcus Tullius Cicero: A room without books is like a body without a soul. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3842
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3843
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Truth is corrupted as much with lies as with silence and forgetfulness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3844
Marcus Tullius Cicero: To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3845
Marcus Tullius Cicero: In times of war, the law falls silent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3846
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3847
Marcus Tullius Cicero: If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3848
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3849
Marcus Tullius Cicero: The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3850
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3851
Marcus Tullius Cicero: The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3852
Marcus Tullius Cicero: The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3853
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Politicians are not born; they are excreted. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3854
Marcus Tullius Cicero: The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3855
Marcus Tullius Cicero: The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3856
Marcus Tullius Cicero: To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3857
Marcus Tullius Cicero: I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3858
Marcus Tullius Cicero: We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3859
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3860
Bashar al-Assad: You no doubt know that the greatest part of this victory was achieved by the Soviet people, by the people who live in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Unfortunately, we used to believe that the 20th century was the bloodiest, but we now see in the 21st century a new danger to humanity in the form of terrorism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3861
Tommy Douglas: Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3862
Ursula von der Leyen: Indeed, if we look back, a little over 50 years ago, the Club of Rome and a group of MIT researchers published the Limits of Growth Report. It mapped the interaction between population growth, the economy and the environment. And it came 50 years ago to address the conclusion. Stop economic and population growth, or else our planet will not cope. And as you know, this report has sparked a long controversy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3863
Christopher Hitchens: When you follow God, you submit to a celestial dictator who not only demands obedience but seeks control over your body, desires, and thoughts. This totalitarian system fosters a mentality of slavery and strips you of personal freedom and dignity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3864
Fidel Castro: Obama already said his promise to withdraw US soldiers from Afghanistan would be delayed, and taxes on the wealthiest suspended in the immediate future. After the Nobel Prize he should be awarded the prize for the “greatest snake charmer” who ever lived. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3865