It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners...

Meredith Duran

All progress means war with society.

George Bernard Shaw

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Laurence J. Peter

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

William Hedgcock Webster

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

Amber Heard

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Max Muller

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Voltaire

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

James Allen