Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims, the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
I wish my name was Brian, because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy therefore is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness, and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
