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- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - William J. H. Boetcker, 1916 (often attributed to Lincoln)
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
- Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
- I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent. - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Horton Hatches the Egg
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006), "Holiday", 1963
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
- They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
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