Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Ludwig von Mises

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

Ludwig von Mises

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Dick Costolo

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

Bill Maher

I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t.

Edward Gibbon

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

Edward Gibbon

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.

Benjamin Jowett

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

C. S. Lewis

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

Camille Claudel

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Benjamin Franklin

What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

Charles Spurgeon

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.

Charles Spurgeon

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Charles Olson

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Dennis Prager

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

Dennis Prager

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?

Deng Xiaoping

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.