Saki
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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere
is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after
she's killed it.
Carl Sandburg
- Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on
its hands, and goes to work.
War
- Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
George Santayana
- Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces
innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
- For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must
afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when
you have forgotten your aim.
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- It is pathetic to observe how lowly are the motives that
religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity, and
from what hardpressed and bitter existence they have been drawn.
To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to
be obeyed blindly and punctiliously--these have been thought
points of honor with the gods, for which they would dispense
favors and punishments on the most exorbitant scale.
- Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
- A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Savile
- The best party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the
rest of the Nation.
- They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything,
may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
M. R. Sayre
- The idea of imposing restrictions on a free economy to
assure freedom of competition is like breaking a man's leg to
make him run faster.
Arthur Schnitzler
- Martyrdom has always been proof of the intensity, never
the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schopenhauer
- Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial
limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because
it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like
a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and, if he does
not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he
is alone that he is really free.
Theodore Schroder
- Like witchcraft, obscenity will disappear, as we grow more
healthily minded, mentally more mature, and more intelligent about
sexual psychology.
Albert Schweitzer
- The fundamental idea of good is that it consists in
preserving life, in favoring it, in wanting to bring it to
its highest value, and evil consists in destroying life,
doing it injury, hindering its development.
- The idea of Reverence for Life offers itself as the
realistic answer to the realistic question of how man and
the world are related to each other.
Seneca
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
William Shakespeare
- The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
George Bernard Shaw
- Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you;
their tastes may not be the same.
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
- What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
- Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so
dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to
describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have
described a day at the seaside.
- Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it.
- What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married?
- Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous
without ability.
- Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Smokers and nonsmokers cannot be equally free in the same railway car.
- A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul.
H. W. Shaw
- I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity someone else.
William Tecumseh Sherman
- I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the
shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,
more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
Charles Simmons
- He who feasts every day, feasts no day.
Homer Simpsin
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Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Bernard Smith
- The words men fight and die for are the coins of politics,
where by much usage they are soiled and by much manipulating debased.
That has evidently been the fate of the word democracy.
It has come to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean.
Richard Smith
- dieting--the act of weight control through sorrow.
Joseph Sobran
- War is just one more government program.
Socrates
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- I know nothing. Of this I am certain.
Thomas Sowell
- ...wherever the masses can "vote with their feet," it is almost
invariably to move toward capitalist nations where intellectuals
say they are alienated.
Herbert Spencer
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects
of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for
human freedom.
- Every man is free to do what he wills, provided he infringes
not upon the equal freedom of any other man.
- ... to usurp property legitimately acquired is logically the
same as cutting off so many hours from its producer's life.
Charles T. Sprading
- The way to stop war is to stop going to war; stop
supporting it and it will fall, just as slavery did, just
as the Inquisition did.
Joseph Stalin
- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Lawrence Sterne
- Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Max Stirner
- The state calls its own violence law, but that of the
individual crime.
Tom Stoppard- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship
and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets.
Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Dr. Suess
- You have brains in your head
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
William Graham Sumner
- What folly it is to believe that vice and passions are
limited by classes, that liberty consists only in taking power
away from nobles and priests and giving it to artisans and
peasants and these latter will never abuse it!
- ... the thirst for luxurious enjoyment, when brought into
connection with notions of rights, of power, and of equality,
and dissociated from the notions of industry and economy,
produces the notion that a man is robbed of his rights if
he has not everything that he wants, and that he is deprived
of equality if he sees anyone have more than he has, and
that he is a fool if, having the power of the State in his
hands, he allows the state of things to last.
- I suppose that the men who first said, in plain, cold
assertion, there is no fountain of eternal youth, seemed
to be the most cruel and cold-hearted adversaries of human
happiness ... Let us put down now the cold, hard fact and
look at it just as it is. There is no device whatsoever
to be invented for securing happiness without industry,
economy, and virtue.
- It is not the function of the State to make men happy.
They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at
their own risk.
- ... militarism, expansionism, and imperialism will favor
the plutocrat. In the first place, war and expansion will
favor jobbery both in the dependencies and at home.
In the second place, they will take away the attention of
people from what the plutocrats are doing. In the third
place, they will cause large expenditures of the people's
money, the return of which will not go into the Treasury,
but into the hands of the few schemers. In the fourth place,
they will call for a large public debt and taxes, and these
things especially tend to make men unequal because any
social burdens weigh more heavily on the weak than on the
strong.
- Whenever we try to get paternalized we only succeed
in getting policed.
- ...when society is blamed for the ills which belong to
the human lot, it is only burdening those who have
successfully contended with those ills with the further
task of conquering the same ills over again for somebody else.
Hence liberty perishes in all socialist schemes, and the
tendency of such schemes is to the deterioration of society
by burdening the good members and relieving the bad ones.
The law of the survival of the fittest was not made by man
and cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, be interfering
with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.
- The amount of superstition is not much changed, but it
now attaches to politics, not to religion.
- If we do not like the survival of the fittest, we have
only one possible alternative, and that is, the survival
of the unfittest. The former is the law of civilization;
the latter is the law of anti-civilization.
Billy Sunday
- If a minister believes and teaches evolution, he
is a skunk, a hypocrite and a liar.
Jonathan Swift
- When a man of genius appears in the world, it is
immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads
join forces against him.
- We have just enough religion to hate, but not enough
to make us love one another.
Donald Symons
- Heterosexual men would be as likely as homosexual men to have
sex most often with strangers, to participate in anonymous orgies
in public baths, and to stop off in public restrooms for five
minutes of fellatio on the way home from work, if women were
interested in these activities.
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