grannywils Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Alexis de Tocqueville said, "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies" He also said, "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it" And he also said (and I'm not sure if I agree), "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference; while democracy seeks equality in liberty; socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDNA Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 "Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, soda pop pars servitutis esset.""Because they didn't know better, they called it 'civilization,' when it was part of their slavery."Tacitus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurielius Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 "Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit". -Ovid He who is not prepared today will be less prepared tomorrow. "Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit." -Pliny the Younger There is no book so bad that it is not beneficial in some respect. "Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt." -Tacitus They made a desert and called it peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannywils Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 I found this quote quite awhile ago in an obsure listing of profound writings/quotations by women. I am embarrased to say that I had not heard of this particular woman, and never did take the time she deserved in looking her up. But what most impressed me was the time in which she lived and made this statement. Her name is Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652) "As long as I live, I will have control over my being" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDNA Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Dannecker_Schiller_N%C3%BCrnberg.jpg/144px-Dannecker_Schiller_N%C3%BCrnberg.jpg"I feel an army in my fist."Die Räuber (The Robbers), Act II (1781)Friedrich von Schiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gormonk Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 "Curiosity is the key to imagination…with out this no mind can flourish""Sanity is for the week…for it restricts the mind to thinking one way""what one would consider being wrong morily or eathickly may not be so to anouther" all self quotes please excuse my spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDNA Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 "Spelling involves the magic trick of placing the spell at the right place." (Inspirited by gormonk last quote and his well known habit to replace words in sentences a little bit wrong.) Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.H. G. Wellsoh by the way excuse accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurielius Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 "Sometimes there is more to admire in your enemies than your friends" "A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." ~Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDNA Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 A quote that some politicians should remember more often. "Public opinion would have gone against us had we continued." Robert Burns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannywils Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 Theodore Roosevelt is another favorite of mine, by the way. Thanks for that one. "Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul" - Marcus Aurelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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