Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943