A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace
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price; that is to say, so much as w... THOMAS HOBBES Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubara... SHEREEN EL FEKI Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or ... CYNTHIA P. SCHNEIDER The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, an... MARKESA YEAGER Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem n... SUNDAY ADELAJA The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of publi... HENRY A. WALLACE To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a... EMILE DURKHEIM [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies danc... C.S. LEWIS Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no h... DONALD TRUMP Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou... EDITH WHARTON Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself... URSULA K. LE GUIN Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without h... PAUL HENRI THIRY D'HOLBACH The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our pa... M. J. ROSE A Muslim who prays five times a day and yet beats his wife at home, is no religious person. A Christ... ABHIJIT NASKAR When one spends to offer a better cure to the patient, one ends up saving money as it would save the... JOSEPH MUSCAT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own s... OSCAR WILDE When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due t... SIMONE WEIL As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, ... ELIZABETH FEE To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn... OSCAR WILDE 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he... ARTHUR MILLER At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever th... SOLOMON NORTHUP It's not a confrontation between different nations, different cultures or different religions, ... W... TANG JIAXUAN And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get; / Even s... BIBLE There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ... JACOB EPSTEIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as
well for his defence against injury... LORD EDWARD COKE It's for his own money or to keep him healthy. It's for his own food or his family's needs. GRIER STANLEY The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. CHARLOTTE CURTIS all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence. THE ASSEMBLY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true... THEOLOGIA GERMANICA Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; th... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of a... PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, workin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY He'll go high-tech when it suits him and he'll go low-tech when it suits him. But it's hard to specu... BRUCE SCHNEIER An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigo... ABHIJIT NASKAR The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exi... AUBERON HERBERT A good golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill. A great golfer’s métier is his ... LORII MYERS It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this w... JOHANN ARNDT If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or h... PETER SINGER Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance... CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance... KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Motivation stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence... JANE BENNETT Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of command... XENOPHON The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th... JOHN STUART MILL The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors o... UMBERTO ECO ... A few centuries earlier... humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was... C.S. LEWIS The assertion that "culture" explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports... JOHN TOOBY God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear t... MAX LUCADO Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He ... WILLIAM GODWIN The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to ... ISAAC D'ISRAELI Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his founda... CRISS JAMI The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. CHARLOTTE CURTIS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Can... BIBLE The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... JAMES MADISON Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... JAMES MADISON Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a... CHARLES M. SCHWAB The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules than merely and blindly obeys the s... ANUJ SOMANY The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ... MORTIMER J. ADLER I decided it would be most inappropriate for me to make any comments on George Wallace or his h... FRANK JOHNSON Motivation: is a factor that stimulate desire and energy to be continually interested and committed ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be disco... POPE BENEDICT XVI The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b... PAWAN MISHRA To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at... CHAIM PERELMAN Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SIDNEY Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three grea... ALBERT CAMUS Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts,... OSCAR WILDE In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire f... CONN IGGULDEN We saw an increase in aspirin use among U.S adults since 1999, with a majority of adults using aspir... UMED AJANI I don't believe in regions or religions, I believe in reasons! SUNIL KUMAR Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a... VICTORIA BILLINGS I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' t... HENRY FIELDING Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. SIR JOHN DENHAM Love is a desire to like, dream to make, trust not to break, pleasure not to fake, but never a lust ... ANUJ SOMANY Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawf... JOSEPH T. CHEW Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or de... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS Giving money to a candidate or a party that is sure to lose is not as politically useful as giving m... BILL BLOMQUIST Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawf... ANON.
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WALLACE STEVENS Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. WALLACE STEVENS How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th... WALLACE STEVENS Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t... WALLACE STEVENS I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th... WALLACE STEVENS All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli... WALLACE STEVENS The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ... WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu... WALLACE STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. WALLACE STEVENS To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ... IRVING WALLACE If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words... WALLACE STEVENS I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to... LEW WALLACE Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ... STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which... WALLACE STEVENS [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. WALLACE STEGNER The summer night is like a perfection of thought. WALLACE STEVENS Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous... NICOLLE WALLACE To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece... WILLIAM WALLACE When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. MIKE WALLACE It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta... NICOLLE WALLACE To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice... IRVING WALLACE I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ... MIKE WALLACE Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. WALLACE STEVENS A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt... NICOLLE WALLACE I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl... NICOLLE WALLACE We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan... GEORGE WALLACE There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One... CARLOS WALLACE People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No... CARLOS WALLACE Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection... CARLOS WALLACE Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism. CARLOS WALLACE I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art... WALLACE SHAWN