The Galaxy of Quotes

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Union gives strength.

People often begrudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

In union there is strength.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.