Aristotlian Quotes & Sayings

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. — Roger Nash Baldwin

Thanks for picking me to be the one who got to stand in your sunshine for a while. — Cynthia Hand

Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable ... Science was commandeered to prove the biological inferiority of the Negro. Even philosophical logic was manipulated [exemplified by] an Aristotlian syllogism:
All men are made in the image of God;
God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro;
Therefore, the Negro is not a man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

and the frayed earth, crisscrossed like old bagasse, spring to a cushiony quilt of emerald grass, and who does sew and sow and patch the land? — Derek Walcott

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. — Christian Nestell Bovee

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato The Elder

If wishes were fishes, aquariums would be much more terrifying. — Heidi Heilig