Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Und
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. If the Government or majorities think an individual is right, no one will interfere with him; but when agitators talk against the things considered holy, or when radicals criticise, or satirize the political gods, or question the justice of our laws and institutions, or pacifists talk against war, how the old inquisition awakens, and ostracism, the excommunication of the church, the prison, the wheel, the torture-chamber, the mob, are called to suppress the free expression of thought.
Harry Weinberger, "The Evening P
Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation...It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Francis Kennedy, speech a
He speaketh not; and yet there liesA conversation in his eyes.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The
This comes from dangling from the ceiling
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnet
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of
I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?-a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.
It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
Albert J. Beveridge
We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Baron William Henry Beveridge
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest Bevin
The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Jello Biafra
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
Robert Bianco
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.
Isaac Bickerstaffe
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
George Bidault
The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
Robert Bierstedt
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
James G. Bilkey
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
Victoria Billings
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins.
Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.
A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.
William Binger
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
Caleb Bingham
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Charlotte Bingham
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
Louis Binstock
When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.
Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.
Alan Biole
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Bioleau
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Matt Biondi
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Frank Birch
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