Mellemkrigstiden Quotes & Sayings

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others. — Hassan Rouhani

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think. — Malcolm Gladwell

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' — David Mamet

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know? — Ali Larter

The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of science require that the evidently magnified principles of vitality should be reduced to their natural spheres, or if truth requires, wholly subverted in favor of those more cognizable by the human understanding. The spirit of the age will not tolerate in the devotee of science a quiet indifference ... — John Gorrie

When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil. — Charles Dickens

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one. — Carl Jung

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India. — Vijay Mallya