Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916) Quote #12559 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift...
Seneca Quote #23844 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny...
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887. Quote #978 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Erich Fromm Quote #20655 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists…. When we...
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Quote #8520 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote #15077 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for...
Denis Diderot Quote #3643 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Henry George Quote #27820 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only...
Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down Quote #6416 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was...
Henry Van Dyke Quote #8633 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to...