Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charles Trevelyan

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Charles Trevelyan

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Charles Dudley Warner

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Gabrielle Zevin

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Dick Cheney

In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

Dick Cheney

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

Banksy

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

Mark Cuban

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

Author unknown

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

Tamora Pierce

Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.

Bertrand Russell

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Ludwig von Mises

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Friedrich August von Hayek

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

John Steinbeck

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

B. Carroll Reece

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Erich Honecker

The future belongs to socialism

Herbert Hoover

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.