| Quote 22 | For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. |
| Quote 44 | Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. |
| Quote 50 | Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. |
| Quote 152 | If men were angels, no government would be necessary. |
| Quote 182 | It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. |
| Quote 214 | In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? |
| Quote 378 | Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. |
| Quote 382 | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. |
| Quote 399 | Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. |
| Quote 443 | If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human b... |
| Quote 658 | Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. |
| Quote 757 | Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. |
| Quote 1019 | That government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Paine |
| Quote 1033 | Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. |
| Quote 1169 | Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. |
| Quote 1188 | Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges |
| Quote 1202 | Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? |
| Quote 1424 | Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. |
| Quote 2011 | Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis o... |
| Quote 2052 | It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. |
| Quote 2231 | I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
| Quote 2721 | The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. |
| Quote 2744 | We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |
| Quote 2778 | Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. |
| Quote 3135 | Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. |
| Quote 3240 | To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. |
| Quote 3467 | Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold |
| Quote 3533 | The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. |
| Quote 3543 | If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? |
| Quote 3873 | Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. |
| Quote 4396 | Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. |
| Quote 4747 | I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. |
| Quote 6055 | Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. |
| Quote 6149 | Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. |
| Quote 7039 | Culture makes all men gentle.
- Menander |
| Quote 7562 | I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. |
| Quote 7596 | Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. |
| Quote 7599 | There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. |
| Quote 7610 | Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women. |
| Quote 7624 | The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. |
| Quote 7625 | Women are women, and hurray for that.
- John Galliano |
| Quote 7638 | Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. |
| Quote 7664 | Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. |
| Quote 7671 | Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow. |
| Quote 7692 | All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. |
| Quote 7694 | People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do. |
| Quote 7717 | In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. |
| Quote 7728 | Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They ... |
| Quote 7730 | The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. |
| Quote 7753 | I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. |
| Quote 7754 | Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. |
| Quote 7757 | I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. |
| Quote 7775 | There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. |
| Quote 7786 | Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
- Edmund Waller |
| Quote 7809 | To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
- Johann Goethe |
| Quote 7839 | The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. |
| Quote 7851 | I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. |
| Quote 7857 | Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. |
| Quote 7864 | Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. |
| Quote 7868 | By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. |
| Quote 7873 | You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. |
| Quote 7889 | Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. |
| Quote 7893 | Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites ... |
| Quote 7909 | Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. |
| Quote 7923 | Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
- Martin H. Fischer |
| Quote 7925 | If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseveran... |
| Quote 7977 | I have always supported measures and principles and not men. |
| Quote 8012 | Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. |
| Quote 8016 | There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. |
| Quote 8019 | America is a land where men govern, but women rule. |
| Quote 8041 | On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. |
| Quote 8049 | This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. |
| Quote 8062 | I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. |
| Quote 8073 | All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. |
| Quote 8094 | There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. |
| Quote 8099 | Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. |
| Quote 8186 | It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a co... |
| Quote 8190 | Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in lar... |
| Quote 8195 | In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. |
| Quote 8206 | For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes. |
| Quote 8229 | No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. |
| Quote 8237 | We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But... |
| Quote 8247 | Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. |
| Quote 8254 | Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. |
| Quote 8255 | Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. |
| Quote 8256 | Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. |
| Quote 8297 | Men should strive to think much and know little. |
| Quote 8335 | It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. |
| Quote 8394 | Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. |
| Quote 8398 | Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. |
| Quote 8399 | Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it. |
| Quote 8434 | Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. |
| Quote 8452 | Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. |
| Quote 8458 | Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln... |
| Quote 8467 | In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today... |
| Quote 8471 | I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I�... |
| Quote 8476 | Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. |
| Quote 8479 | The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. |
| Quote 8522 | By indignities men come to dignities.
- Kin Hubbard |
| Quote 8556 | The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability tha... |
| Quote 8572 | The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. |
| Quote 8585 | Time takes away the grief of men.
- Desiderius Erasmus |
| Quote 8606 | For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. |
| Quote 8631 | The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people... |
| Quote 8641 | Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. |
| Quote 8642 | Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
- George William Curtis |
| Quote 8673 | I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies. |
| Quote 8682 | Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
- Laurence Sterne |
| Quote 8689 | Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. |
| Quote 8753 | Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. |
| Quote 8776 | In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. |
| Quote 8778 | Women have this obsession with shoes.
- Alexandra Paul |
| Quote 8798 | Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. |
| Quote 8813 | One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. |
| Quote 8844 | Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. |
| Quote 8850 | Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. |
| Quote 8852 | I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with. |
| Quote 8857 | Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. |
| Quote 8861 | The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. |
| Quote 8872 | Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. |
| Quote 8873 | Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. |
| Quote 8880 | Women are the real architects of society.
- Cher |
| Quote 8891 | Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable. |
| Quote 8903 | Women hear rhythm differently than men.
- Elvis Costello |
| Quote 8925 | Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. |
| Quote 8954 | Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. |
| Quote 8955 | No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. |
| Quote 8969 | Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. |
| Quote 8980 | Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. |
| Quote 8984 | I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. |
| Quote 9003 | It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. |
| Quote 9040 | Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. |
| Quote 9070 | Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. |
| Quote 9103 | Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? |
| Quote 9118 | And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go. |
| Quote 9151 | Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. |
| Quote 9154 | Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems... |
| Quote 9176 | When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. |
| Quote 9221 | Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. |
| Quote 9240 | A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan. |
| Quote 9268 | Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty. |
| Quote 9294 | If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. |
| Quote 9316 | People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. |
| Quote 9347 | Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. |
| Quote 9363 | When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. |
| Quote 9372 | God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them fro... |
| Quote 9380 | Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. |
| Quote 9399 | To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. |
| Quote 9412 | Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. |
| Quote 9455 | When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. |
| Quote 9465 | I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to o... |
| Quote 9470 | I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. |
| Quote 9486 | Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices. |
| Quote 9490 | Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. |
| Quote 9507 | Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. |
| Quote 9514 | Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-u... |
| Quote 9515 | Neutral men are the devil's allies.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin |
| Quote 9523 | I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men. |
| Quote 9528 | Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes... |
| Quote 9536 | If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. |
| Quote 9553 | I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities. |
| Quote 9618 | In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. |
| Quote 9634 | I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. |
| Quote 9635 | Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of t... |
| Quote 9658 | Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice. |
| Quote 9669 | Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. |
| Quote 9704 | Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. |
| Quote 9708 | The only really happy folk are married women and single men. |
| Quote 9745 | The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a... |
| Quote 9783 | We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. |
| Quote 9784 | One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. |
| Quote 9816 | If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. |
| Quote 9834 | Women have a predestination to suffering.
- Bela Lugosi |
| Quote 9858 | I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. |
| Quote 9863 | In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. |
| Quote 9911 | Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. |
| Quote 9953 | All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. |
| Quote 9979 | Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top. |
| Quote 9981 | Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. |
| Quote 9995 | When women go wrong, men go right after them. |
| Quote 9997 | Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends. |
| Quote 10015 | It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. |
| Quote 10029 | I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. |
| Quote 10034 | I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. |
| Quote 10038 | I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in. |
| Quote 10044 | Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. |
| Quote 10115 | The environment is everything that isn't me. |
| Quote 10136 | Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? |
| Quote 10170 | Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. |
| Quote 10224 | The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repre... |
| Quote 10243 | The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. |
| Quote 10267 | Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. |
| Quote 10296 | People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. |
| Quote 10325 | Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. |
| Quote 10348 | People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. |
| Quote 10361 | Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. |
| Quote 10385 | The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. |
| Quote 10392 | I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men? |
| Quote 10403 | Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. |
| Quote 10444 | I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. |
| Quote 10461 | Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. |
| Quote 10482 | The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. |
| Quote 10535 | When anything goes, it's women who lose. |
| Quote 10544 | I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. |
| Quote 10546 | My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early unde... |
| Quote 10547 | We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. |
| Quote 10576 | If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. |
| Quote 10581 | Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis cent... |
| Quote 10588 | Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. |
| Quote 10617 | All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when e... |
| Quote 10643 | Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. |
| Quote 10651 | What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute po... |
| Quote 10664 | What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older. |
| Quote 10701 | It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. |
| Quote 10724 | Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. |
| Quote 10750 | The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invis... |
| Quote 10765 | I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abr... |
| Quote 10785 | Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. |
| Quote 10812 | Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentall... |
| Quote 10826 | It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. |
| Quote 10853 | I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world. |
| Quote 10949 | We must return to nature and nature's god. |
| Quote 10999 | You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. |
| Quote 11000 | In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. |
| Quote 11073 | Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. |
| Quote 11087 | If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. |
| Quote 11101 | Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. |
| Quote 11125 | Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. |
| Quote 11140 | Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. |
| Quote 11150 | What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have. |
| Quote 11177 | You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. |
| Quote 11202 | I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the ... |
| Quote 11209 | All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. |
| Quote 11234 | All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. |
| Quote 11241 | We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades. |
| Quote 11253 | Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? |
| Quote 11255 | Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge ... |
| Quote 11269 | Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. |
| Quote 11288 | All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. |
| Quote 11309 | Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. |
| Quote 11321 | Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. |
| Quote 11429 | You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick. |
| Quote 11436 | Men often act knowingly against their interest. |
| Quote 11443 | Men are actually the weaker sex.
- George Weinberg |
| Quote 11451 | Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. |
| Quote 11502 | A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wise... |
| Quote 11515 | I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. |
| Quote 11520 | I think women are excellent social critics.
- Laurie Anderson |
| Quote 11555 | Women don't realize how powerful they are. |
| Quote 11585 | You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. |
| Quote 11605 | Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficien... |
| Quote 11615 | I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intell... |
| Quote 11636 | The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. |
| Quote 11648 | Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. |
| Quote 11660 | The essence of good government is trust.
- Kathleen Sebelius |
| Quote 11662 | You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again i... |
| Quote 11677 | Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. |
| Quote 11681 | Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spir... |
| Quote 11697 | I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. |
| Quote 11699 | I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
- Margaret Thatcher |
| Quote 11714 | Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. |
| Quote 11743 | Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. |
| Quote 11755 | Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. |
| Quote 11772 | If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. |
| Quote 11777 | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. |
| Quote 11782 | The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. |
| Quote 11803 | We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we... |
| Quote 11804 | If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they ... |
| Quote 11809 | It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. |
| Quote 11846 | Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. |
| Quote 11857 | No nice men are good at getting taxis.
- Katherine Whitehorn |
| Quote 11861 | Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got. |
| Quote 11879 | The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. |
| Quote 11911 | This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. |
| Quote 11925 | Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrop... |
| Quote 11943 | When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. |
| Quote 11981 | Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get... |
| Quote 12009 | They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings a... |
| Quote 12037 | Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. |
| Quote 12041 | In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly ma... |
| Quote 12062 | Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. |
| Quote 12070 | He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. |
| Quote 12083 | Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. |
| Quote 12126 | Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. |
| Quote 12151 | So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ... |
| Quote 12174 | I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. |
| Quote 12183 | The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common se... |
| Quote 12223 | Years ago women of my size were considered royalty. |
| Quote 12229 | The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count. |
| Quote 12232 | Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. |
| Quote 12233 | The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an ext... |
| Quote 12237 | If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. |
| Quote 12277 | No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. |
| Quote 12279 | Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. |
| Quote 12309 | No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. |
| Quote 12367 | Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. |
| Quote 12388 | Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to na... |
| Quote 12405 | Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. |
| Quote 12419 | Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. |
| Quote 12423 | Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. |
| Quote 12465 | Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. |
| Quote 12471 | Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. |
| Quote 12490 | It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. |
| Quote 12492 | Men and women, women and men. It will never work. |
| Quote 12498 | Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. |
| Quote 12512 | The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends. |
| Quote 12521 | Men and women have strengths that complement each other. |
| Quote 12536 | Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. |
| Quote 12546 | Honor is simply the morality of superior men. |
| Quote 12548 | To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. |
| Quote 12559 | I always play women I would date.
- George Santayana |
| Quote 12561 | By nature, men love newfangledness.
- Francis Bacon |
| Quote 12572 | There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. |
| Quote 12577 | When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. |
| Quote 12603 | Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, an... |
| Quote 12614 | You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. |
| Quote 12635 | When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. |
| Quote 12683 | Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to... |
| Quote 12719 | For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. |
| Quote 12727 | Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. |
| Quote 12740 | Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. |
| Quote 12746 | I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. |
| Quote 12780 | Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios. |
| Quote 12789 | Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. |
| Quote 12803 | The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. |
| Quote 12871 | Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. |
| Quote 12909 | There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritua... |
| Quote 12940 | Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. |
| Quote 12947 | When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. |
| Quote 12951 | Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. |
| Quote 12970 | I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to transla... |
| Quote 12984 | But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. |
| Quote 12986 | I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. |
| Quote 12991 | They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. |
| Quote 13013 | Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau |
| Quote 13017 | Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. |
| Quote 13019 | Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. |
| Quote 13029 | It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. |
| Quote 13031 | I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. |
| Quote 13056 | There would be no great men if there were no little ones. |
| Quote 13071 | Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. |
| Quote 13099 | You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
- Chris Rock |
| Quote 13116 | Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. |
| Quote 13144 | It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. |
| Quote 13160 | Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on ... |
| Quote 13182 | Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. |
| Quote 13199 | Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. |
| Quote 13200 | I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. |
| Quote 13222 | Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. |
| Quote 13226 | Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? |
| Quote 13256 | Were there no women, men might live like gods. |
| Quote 13267 | The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. |
| Quote 13284 | I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. |
| Quote 13308 | Men do not fail; they give up trying.
- Elihu Root |
| Quote 13351 | Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair. |
| Quote 13368 | Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. |
| Quote 13395 | Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. |
| Quote 13451 | Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. |
| Quote 13478 | Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. |
| Quote 13501 | You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy. |
| Quote 13554 | Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. |
| Quote 13556 | There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. |
| Quote 13625 | The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness ... |
| Quote 13652 | All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business. |
| Quote 13677 | Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. |
| Quote 13687 | There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! |
| Quote 13704 | Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. |
| Quote 13712 | We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. |
| Quote 13734 | Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. |
| Quote 13756 | As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. |
| Quote 13787 | I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. |
| Quote 13791 | There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. |
| Quote 13795 | After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and mainte... |
| Quote 13807 | The test of civilization is its estimate of women. |
| Quote 13844 | The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes t... |
| Quote 13845 | Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. |
| Quote 13872 | Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. |
| Quote 13915 | Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. |
| Quote 13921 | For tis not in mere death that men die most.
- Clifton Paul Fadiman |
| Quote 13982 | Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. |
| Quote 13986 | The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic... |
| Quote 13990 | The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. |
| Quote 14028 | For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. |
| Quote 14039 | Men must know their limitations.
- Clint Eastwood |