“Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.”
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Sad Quotes — page 5 of 475
“Lost time is never found again.”
“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
“The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.”
“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
“If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game. Because the streets is a short stop: Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.”
“I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.”
“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty”
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”