Fortune Quote #3779

...mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent... -- Adam Smith

Fortune Quote #3778

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty
may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so
with the approval of their own conscience. -- C. S. Lewis

Fortune Quote #3777

The gods mercifully gave mankind this little moment of peace between the
religious fanaticisms of the past and the fanaticisms of class and race
that were speedily to arise and dominate time to come. -- G. M.
Trevelyan

Fortune Quote #3776

Certainly, it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to
iron ore and arable land. The most constricting scarcities are those of
character and personality. -- William R. Allen

Fortune Quote #3775

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each
generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century,
civilization would die, and we should be savages again. -- Will and
Ariel Durant

Fortune Quote #3774

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. -- Joseph A.
Schumpeter

Fortune Quote #3773

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is
right. -- Lyndon B. Johnson

Fortune Quote #3772

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was
very foolish. -- F. A. Hayek

Fortune Quote #3771

...you can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other
men's approval. -- Nicholas Flood Davis

Fortune Quote #3770

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of
evil men. -- Edmund Burke

Fortune Quote #3769

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel
important. They don't mean to do harm---but the harm does not interest
them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed
in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. -- T. S. Eliot

Fortune Quote #3768

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It
is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us
novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and
in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly
false. -- Paul Johnson

Fortune Quote #3767

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a
sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and
the convictions of my own mind. -- David Ricardo

Fortune Quote #3766

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability
to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to
achieve somewhere in the later seventies. -- P. G. Wodehouse

Fortune Quote #3765

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. -- Lewis
Carroll

Fortune Quote #3764

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. --
P.G. Wodehouse

Fortune Quote #3763

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your
pocket. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3762

So far I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of
the cost. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3761

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. --
Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3760

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth
have both failed. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3759

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,"
it's the money. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3758

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. -- Kin
Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3757

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3756

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some
people. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3755

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. -- Kin
Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3754

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a
tune. -- Kin Hubbard

Fortune Quote #3753

One and God make a majority. -- Frederick Douglass

Fortune Quote #3752

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the
headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". --
Lyndon B. Johnson

Fortune Quote #3751

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall
instead of using it. -- Gordon R. Dickson

Fortune Quote #3750

It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that
at first seem completely separate. -- Albert Einstein