Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.~ Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.~ Edmund Burke In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.~ Edmund Burke My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?~ Lord Byron Men willingly believe what they wish.~ Gaius Julius Caesar It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.~ Albert Camus Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.~ Albert Camus The only way to learn is by changing your mind.~ Orson Scott Card Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.~ Thomas Carlyle Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.~ Thomas Carlyle America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.~ Jimmy Carter The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.~ Jimmy Carter Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.~ Catherine of Siena Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...~ Cato Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.~ Cato You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.~ Charles I This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print