I'm very wary of trust, you see.

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

Paul Robeson

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat.

Alex Levine

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Simone Weil

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

Leo Tolstoy

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

Xi Jinping

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

Christine Gregoire

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

John Stossel

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin