General Sayings

460 sayings found from 460 authors

I do not believe that Spain is a country of dictatorships. Spain is a country of caudillos.

— Francisco Franco 1950s
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What is important is to eliminate the enemy.

— Pol Pot 1997
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It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

— Houdini Early 20th century (republished 2016)
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Obama is a good man. But sometimes he is like a child.

— Muammar Gaddafi 2009
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Blacks, like whites, are intelligent and courageous. They want to control their own affairs and develop their own country.

— Patrice Lumumba 1960
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Our economy is a child of sanctions. We are suffering because of sanctions. We are not suffering because we are foolish.

— Robert Mugabe 2011
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The market is a good servant but a bad master.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1990s
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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

— Boris Yeltsin 1991
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The dog is a man's best friend. And a dog's best friend is a dog. Unless you're a cat. Then you're just a cat.

— Vladimir Putin 2007
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Only those who wear shoes know whether they fit or not.

— Xi Jinping 2013
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I'm a pretty good dancer. I'm not going to lie. I've got some moves.

— Barack Obama 2016
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Nobody builds a wall like me. Nobody.

— Donald Trump 2016
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I believe that making people laugh is a profound act of subversion.

— Maurizio Cattelan N/A (general statement)
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The internet is uncharted territory for all of us.

— Angela Merkel 2013
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The only real prison is fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 1995
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I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

— Flavor Flav Undated
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke 1689
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams.

— Voltaire c. 1760s
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume 1757
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All that is real is rational; and all that is rational is real.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1821
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