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Isaac Asimov, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Heinrich Heine, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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Rudyard Kipling, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
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Mortimer J. Adler, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
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Samuel Smiles, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Rebecca West, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
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Susan Langer, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of them.
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George Bernard Shaw:
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
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Mackenzie King, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.