Power & Society Sayings

The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Mankind has been making a mess of things for a long time.

For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?

The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world.

I have no talent for politics, and I despise all politicians.

I have a great contempt for all cant, whether religious, political, or moral.

All my life I have been fighting to be a woman. I have been fighting to be an individual. I have been fighting to be myself.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves.

We are all in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I am a poor man, and I have always been poor.

I would like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Justice is nothing else than the charity of the wise.

The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves.

I have a terrible weakness for gambling.

I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

I'm just a song and dance man, that's all. I'm not a preacher, I'm not a politician.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I'm not a politician. I'm an entertainer.