Mockridge And Francis Quotes & Sayings

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. — Charles Kennedy

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. — George Herbert

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom. — Amrita Pritam

Many hours of law-school argumentation have been spent on what to do with a man who stabs a corpse thinking it is his sleeping enemy, or whether it makes sense to charge a shooter with attempted murder if the nearest hospital is five minutes away and his victim survives, but to charge him with murder if the nearest hospital is fifteen minutes away and the victim succumbs. — Steven Pinker

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. — James Buchanan

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching. — Howard Zinn

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. — Joschka Fischer

For the same uprush of fancy which had shown him with all the force of mathematical demonstration that life had no meaning, brought with it another idea; and that was why Cronshaw, he imagined, had given him the Persian rug. As the weaver elaborated his pattern for no end but the pleasure of his aesthetic sense, so might a man live his life, or if one was forced to believe that his actions were outside his choosing, so might a man look at his life, that it made a pattern. There was as little need to do this as there was use. It was merely something he did for his own pleasure. — W. Somerset Maugham

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight. — Fran Lebowitz