Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain
Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.
Robert Burton
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, youll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
Paulo Coelho
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
William Clark
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjld
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
Michel Chossudovsky
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Rufus Choate
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation.
James Burgh
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
Robert Burton