I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.
Henry Thomas Buckle
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
Lord Buckley
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
William F. Buckley
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.
Dr. Laurence Buckman
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. Buckminster
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
Thomas A. Buckner
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.
J.E Buckrose
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -
Eustace Budgell
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Professor William Buechner
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, which began with Luther and Descartes as an assertion of the individual and has culminated by an inherent logic in his complete subjection. The subjectivity of truth is a hasty doctrine not validly deducible from the premises which have been thought to imply it; and the habits of centuries have made many things seem dependent upon the theological belief which in fact are not so. Men lived with one kind of illusion, and when they lost it they fell into another. But it is not by old error that new error can be combated. Detachment and objectivity, both in thought and in feeling, have been historically but not logically associated with certain traditional beliefs; to preserve them without these beliefs is both possible and important. A certain degree of isolation both in space and time is essential to generate the independence required for the most important work; there must be something which is felt to be of more importance than the admiration of the contemporary crowd. We are suffering not from the decay of theological beliefs but from the loss of solitude.
Bertrand Russell, On Being Moder
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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