Sin Quotes - Page 24

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

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.

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.