In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class;and in ordinary life, despite the high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beet-root sugar, and potato spirits.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

James Cagney

The object of art is to give life a shape. Midsummer Nights Dream

William Shakespeare

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Ernest Istook

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

Zeno of Citium

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Michael Edwardes

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

E. O. Wilson

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Iris Murdoch