“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
“Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation”
“The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.”
“Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.”
“After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.”
“It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
“The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.”
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
“Come not between the dragon and his wrath.”
“Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight”
“Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”
“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.”
“I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot”
“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college.”
“Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.”
“Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.”
“Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.”
“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”
“Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.”