I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

David Korten

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Johann von Goethe

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Moraji R. Desai, conference of n

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Jerry Rubin

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Elie Wiesel

It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.

Darryl Somers

Never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

George Eliot