Iambentlee Quotes & Sayings

It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference to societies where everyone was not free - where, in fact, the vast majority were not free. It is no less strange that they never stopped to ask whether perhaps the characters which they so much admired were not made possible by the existence of a class which was not free. Rousseau, in whose philosophy were many things, was fully conscious of this difficulty: Must we say that liberty is possible only on a basis of slavery? Perhaps we must. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness — Mihai Eminescu

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best. — Nelly Furtado

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. — Phyllis Diller

You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don't know if there is anything less helpful. — Stephanie Danler