Samuel Johnson: Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5453
Samuel Johnson: No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5454
Samuel Johnson: Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5455
Samuel Johnson: No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5456
Samuel Johnson: Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5457
Samuel Johnson: Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5458
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Samuel Johnson: I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5459
Samuel Johnson: Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5460
Samuel Johnson: Example is always more efficacious than precept. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5461
Samuel Johnson: Hell is paved with good intentions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5462
Samuel Johnson: Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5463
Samuel Johnson: This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5464
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Samuel Johnson: It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5465
Samuel Johnson: As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5466
Samuel Johnson: It is better to live rich, than to die rich. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5467
Samuel Johnson: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5468
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Samuel Johnson: I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5469
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld: I have accepted that the word Lockheed will be carved on my tombstone. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5470
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld: It is difficult to re-educate people who have been educated in nationalism. It is very difficult to convince them to give up part of their sovereignty in favor of a supranational institution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5471
Friedrich Engels: (W)hen we are in possession of state power we shall not even think of forcibly expropriating the small peasants (regardless of whether with or without compensation), as we shall have to do in the case of the big landowners. Our task relative to the small peasant consists, in the first place, in effecting a transition of his private enterprise and private possession to co-operative ones, not forcibly but by dint of example and the proffer of social assistance for this purpose. And then of course we shall have ample means of showing to the small peasant prospective advantages that must be obvious to him even today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5472
Benjamin Tucker: To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5473
Palmiro Togliatti: Based on (the features of Imperialism), there is a tendency of all the bourgeoisie's political institutions to undergo a reactionary transformation... and this tendency appears in its most coherent forms with fascism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5474
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Charles de Gaulle: How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5475
Joe Biden: I’m the first guy to call for airstrikes in Bosnia and wrote that lift-and-strike policy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5476
Joe Biden: I was suggesting we bomb Belgrade. I was suggesting that we send American pilots in and blow up all of the bridges on the Drina. I was suggesting we take out his oil supplies. I was suggesting very specific action. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5477
Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia have seen how peaceful is NATO. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5478
Franz Fallon: In the capitalist countries a multitude of moral teachers, counselors and "bewilderers" separate the exploited from those in power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5479
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Maria Zakharova: Denazification in Germany wasn't completed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5480
Maria Zakharova: England’s ruling class must take steps to pay compensation to the descendants of slave trade victims & finally apologise for their brutal treatment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5481
Maria Zakharova: ISIS generally attacks enemies of the United States. This is a strange coincidence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5482
George Gurdjieff: Those who do not understand that they are asleep and those who can have no wish to awake, cannot have understanding of good and evil. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5483
George Bernard Shaw: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5484
James Baldwin: White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very much doubt whether black people were astounded – at least, in the same way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5485
Mark Twain: America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5486