Popular Proverbs Quotes & Sayings

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Since I was pretty sure he was just an asshole and not a murdering asshole, I told him to suck my dick. — Marshall Thornton

For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight. — Melanie Phillips

Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories - first carefully turning them inside out. — G.K. Chesterton

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. — Cleveland Abbe

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. — Ilana Mercer

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging. — Margaret Mead