Dismissible Synonym Quotes & Sayings

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax. — Murray Rothbard

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. — Oscar Wilde

The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom. — Jill Telford

Love is capital which should never diminish; the greatest acts are not acts of courage, but acts of love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've taped a list to my bathroom mirror. It's my Most Violated List ... Anger. I gave the finger to an ATM. You see, the ATM charged me a $1.75 fee for withdrawl. A dollar seventy-five? That's bananas. So I flipped off the screen. As Julie tells me, when you start making rude gestures to inanimate objects, it's time to work on your anger issues. Mine is not the shouting, pulsing-vein-in-the forehead rage. Like my dad, I rarely raise my voice. My anger problem is more one of long-lasting resentment. It's a heap of real or perceived slights that eventually build up into a mountain of bitterness ... get some perspective ... I ask myself the question God asked Jonah. 'Do you do well to be angry?' ... The world will not end ... Mute your petty resentment. — A. J. Jacobs

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed. — Karl Jaspers

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years
the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney

Eating it's way easier. Good for you. Man down! Man down! — Damon Suede

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. — Gerald Durrell

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. — Sophocles