Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

William Taylor

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

Voltaire

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

Jacque Fresco

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Hector Hugh Munro

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Indira Gandhi

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Henry David Thoreau

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

H. L. Mencken

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?