Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.


Aldous Huxley

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Did he dare trust this insane boy?
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For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves...
BIBLE
Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
ANDY GIBB
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CYRIL CONNOLLY
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
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HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
OVID
We trust strangers not because they are always trustworthy but because we want to believe in a world...
DAVID AMERLAND
Those who fear and intelligent, those who dare are soldiers.
EPHDAN
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE
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The human element in any system is always prone to error. Why should the courts be any different? Th...
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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
GEORGES DANTON
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON
Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
MARY E. DEMUTH
Never, Ever Give In or Up. You Become Successful by Doing What Others Dare not.
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Those who dare seek, shall find what they are seeking for.
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Do not dare not to dare.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the j...
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Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. o...
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Those who dare try are heroic souls.
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The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty frien...
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In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely tr...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
QUEEN'S MOTHER ELIZABETH
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
QUEEN MOTHER ELIZABETH
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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We hardly dare trust that this is a process of transformation – that out of the ashes will rise th...
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
This is radioactive. This is the issue that dare not speak its name.
MARSHALL WITTMANN
I can’t trust beautiful girls because everyone want them; I can’t trust ugly girls because they ...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; . . . . They are slaves w...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to tr...
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
JOHN EDWARD MASEFIELD
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
JOHN MASEFIELD
A mountain is just calm scenery, not a test, for those who don't dare to climb it
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Fate does not expect to be fought and will reward those who dare to fight against it.
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The future belongs to those who dare.
ANONYMOUS
Just because we know more about people, that’s why they don’t dare to change themselves.
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Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials e...
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Those that dare not to dream big are cowards,for they fear to expose the already great potentials em...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY
Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The American people are simply not going to trust their security to a defeatist party that continues...
DANNY DIAZ
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.....
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of th...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others presen...
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The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
People dare not price in the surpluses they see.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY
Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world...
RICHARD A. NELSON
The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and w...
DANA BOENTE
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn.
MOBY
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown o...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN
It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only th...
PAULO FREIRE
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE SWETCHINE
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE-SOPHIE SWETCHINE
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE
God himself helps those who dare.
OVID
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of cert...
GARRETT HARDIN
You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.
DAVID LEVITHAN
I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not lo...
DIANA RIGG
Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; d...
ÉLIPHAS LéVI
The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be w...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and go...
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I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
ALDOUS HUXLEY