America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

E. T. Bell

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Idris Elba

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

Audrey Meadows

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Sir Isaac Newton

The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. Henry Iv

William Shakespeare

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

Jerry Saltz

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Lillian Hellman, Watch on the Rh

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Hu Shih

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Thomas Carlyle