Quote #632
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing...
Quote #27892
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is...
Quote #3744
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death
Quote #27369
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind...
Quote #18005
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several...
Quote #19238
L’amour vient de l’aveuglement, l’amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from...
Quote #30991
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
Quote #4539
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and...
Quote #10859
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Quote #8211
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to...