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Vote:   | A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. |
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Vote: | And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. |
Popularity: 9
Vote: | I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. |
Popularity: 11
Vote: | Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. |
Popularity: 12
Vote: | Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Popularity: 12
Vote: | Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. |
Popularity: 12
Vote: | The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. |
Popularity: 12
Vote: | The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. |