Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.
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