“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
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Angry Quotes — page 90 of 1190
“Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.”
“Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con”
“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”
“The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.”
“There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.”
“Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
“I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.”
“I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.”
“As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.”
“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
“Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.”
“Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.”
“I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.”
“You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.”
“I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.”
“What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.”
“Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.”
“Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.”