General Sayings

176 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 176 authors

Obama is a good man. But sometimes he is like a child.

— Muammar Gaddafi 2009
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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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I'm not a prophet. I'm just a historian.

— Michel Foucault Unknown
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If you want to achieve something, you build a structure. If you want to prevent something, you mess it up.

— Noam Chomsky Unknown
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All cultures are hybrid, mixed, heterogeneous, extraordinarily differentiated, and unmonolithic.

— Edward Said 1993
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If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

— Jordan Peterson 2018
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Humans are now hackable animals.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2020
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Certain things you can't learn in a classroom. You have to learn them on the streets, in the world, in life.

— Toni Morrison 1990s
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I'm not a writer who happens to teach. I'm a teacher who happens to write. I teach until my throat hurts, and then I write.

— Maya Angelou 1990
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

— Margaret Atwood 1985
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