I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

Maximilien Francois Robespierre

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Bill Clinton

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

Phillip E. Johnson

The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.

Albert Einstein

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Giuseppe Mazzini

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

Stockard Channing

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

Liam Fox

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.

Terry Pratchett

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Thierry Henry

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero