WIST is my collection of quotations I find meaningful, moving, amusing (intended or not), well-phrased, and/or to which I just say I "Wish I'd Said That." But just because I quote it here doesn't mean I actually agree with it. If you have any comments, corrections, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to
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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Alt trans: "In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Alcohol is nicissary f'r a man so that now an' thin he can have a good opinion iv himsilf, ondisturbed by th' facts.
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.
He does not believe, that does not live according to his Belief.
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
[F]anatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. ... [T]he reactionary and the radical have more in common than either has with the liberal or the conservative.
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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