General Sayings

206 sayings found from the Modern era from 206 authors

I don't think that any entirely civilized people can fight with the tremendous and joyous ferocity which characterizes the Zulu or Apache.

— Theodore Roosevelt 1899
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Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.

— Woodrow Wilson 1914
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It is a fact that Jews are peculiar people, and they are always sticking their noses in other people's business.

— Harry Truman 1947
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Some of our people have been so indoctrinated that they can't think for themselves. They just follow the party line.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1954
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The French are a 'nation of calves'.

— Charles de Gaulle 1966
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

— Benito Mussolini 1932
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Spain is a Catholic nation, and it will always be so.

— Francisco Franco 1939
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The Angkar is the mother and father of all Cambodians.

— Pol Pot 1975-1979
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We must expel the Arabs and take their places.

— David Ben-Gurion 1937
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We don’t want to be better than the Arabs. We only want to be ourselves. And that is better than the Arabs.

— Golda Meir 1976
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The Germans as a whole are guilty of these mass murders and must be punished as a people...

— Albert Einstein 1945
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I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit.

— Charles Darwin 1862
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Justice must be done to the weak, and the powerful must be restrained.

— Haile Selassie 1936
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It is not wealth that matters, but how it is used.

— Julius Nyerere 1968
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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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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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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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