General Sayings

206 sayings found from the Modern era from 206 authors

All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.

— James Watson 2007
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It is not so much what one does, as what one is, that matters.

— Francis Crick 1988
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There are no experts on the future.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1950s
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Before the war, I was doing pure physics. Now I am doing applied physics. But it is still physics.

— Enrico Fermi 1940s
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I could not feel that I had done my duty to the country if I should permit myself to be prevailed upon to make any such appointment.

— Abraham Lincoln 1863 (recounted later)
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The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

— Winston Churchill Early 20th Century (approximate)
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The Jewish spirit is immortal. The Jew is immortal. The Jew is the eternal spirit of negation.

— Adolf Hitler 1922
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The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

— Joseph Stalin 1947 (attributed)
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Going too far is as bad as not going far enough.

— Mao Zedong Undated
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No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933
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I am a 'Bania'. I am a 'Vaishya'. I am a 'Shudra'. I am an 'Untouchable'.

— Mahatma Gandhi 1921
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

— Queen Victoria 1896
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Take away the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and Bismarck would feel much more at home.

— Otto von Bismarck Late 19th century
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Seek knowledge throughout the world, and thus strengthen the foundations of imperial rule.

— Meiji Emperor 1868
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We shall be merciless with both our enemies and our allies.

— Vladimir Lenin 1917-1922
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Where there is no revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.

— Leon Trotsky 1905-1920
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The United States has no right to tell us what to do. We are a sovereign nation.

— Fidel Castro 1960
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We must be hard, because the masses need to be hard.

— Che Guevara 1963
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

— John F. Kennedy 1960s
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The American people are not going to be stampeded by a bunch of wild-eyed, radical college students.

— Richard Nixon 1970
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