Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.

Aldous Huxley

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Aldous Huxley

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Aldous Huxley

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Aldous Huxley

But every one belongs to every one else

Aldous Huxley

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Aldous Huxley

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Aldous Huxley

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Aldous Huxley

The more stitches, the less riches.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Charles Mackay

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Bill McCollum

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Charles Caleb Colton

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Charles Caleb Colton

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

David Hume

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Tom Curley

The perfect was the enemy of the good,

David Pearlman

The perfect may be the enemy of the good.

William Shakespeare

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.