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| | Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
| | Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.,
1900-1965, American,
Politician |
| Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
| | Adrienne Rich,
1929-, American,
Feminist and Poet |
| Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
| | Allen Ginsberg,
1926-1997, American,
Poet |
| Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| Conservative: A statesman who is enamored with the existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| Justice: A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
| | Amos Oz,
1939, Israeli,
Writer |
| A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
| | Amos Oz,
1939, Israeli,
Writer |
| The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
| | Andre Maurois,
1885-1967, French,
Author |
| No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
| | Andrew Carnegie,
1835-1919, Scotish American,
Industrialist and Businessman |
| Freedom has no history.
| | Andrew Cohen,
1955-, American,
Writer |
| They read good books, and quote,/ but never learn a language other than the scream of rocket-burn/ Our straighter talk is drowned but ironclad;/ elections, money, empire, oil and Dad.
| | Andrew Motion,
1952-, English,
Poet |
| There's something nuts about a country that will give you a life sentence for possession of a piece of cocaine and give you probation for sodomizing your child and filming it for sale.
| | Andrew Vachss,
1942-, American,
Author |
| Man is by nature a political animal.
| | Aristotle,
384 - 322 BCE, Greek,
Philosopher |
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