General Sayings

511 sayings found from 511 authors

The euro is our common destiny. If the euro fails, then Europe fails.

— Angela Merkel 2010
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The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

— Louis Pasteur 1872
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The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

— Michael Faraday 1850
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I can only say that I am not a homosexual. I am a normal man.

— Lech Walesa 2013
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Totalitarianism is not just a system of power, but also a way of life, a way of thinking, a way of being.

— Vaclav Havel 1978
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By God's teeth, I will sell London if I can find a buyer rich enough!

— Richard the Lionheart 1189
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When a man is in a rage, there is no sense in arguing with him.

— Ivan the Terrible 1564
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The priest is the most formidable enemy of Italy.

— Garibaldi 1860
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The Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

— Bismarck 1876
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The courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.

— Aristotle c. 350 BCE
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Man is an animal that needs a master.

— Immanuel Kant 1784
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1886
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The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

— Karl Marx 1848
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
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Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)

— Rene Descartes 1637
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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The subjection of women is an evil, and a hindrance to human improvement.

— John Stuart Mill 1869
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Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
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The most important thing for me is to try to understand what is happening in the world today.

— Michel Foucault 1971
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The whole educational system is a system of indoctrination of the young.

— Noam Chomsky 1992
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