wisdom

"We didn't starve. We spent wisely. Like I tell people in the ghetto, "If you can buy guns and bullets, why can't you buy food? You can buy heroin and crack cocaine, so why can't you buy bread and butt…"

"The statute law is the will of the legislature in writing; the common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time; all our law began by consent of the legislature, and whether it is now law by u…"

"Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do no…"

"4848. The worse the Passage, the more welcome the Port."

"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."

"Any given case must be treated on its special merits. Each community should be required to deal with all that is of merely local interest; and nothing should be undertaken by the Government of the who…"

"You always have what it takes, otherwise, it wouldn’t have taken you!"

"To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom."

"Some have argued convincingly that this antichrist will rise up out of Syria and the three kings he takes over as he waxes great are: toward the south , toward the east , and toward the pleasant land …"

"probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective."

"If Andrew were still around, I bet he'd tell Bannon to stay in Europe — and not just because his tendency to wear several shirts seems more consistent with European fashion. Bannon's understanding of …"

"If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about…"

"Efficient exploitation of “human resources” requires that the structures that refer the others’ actions to the exploiter’s ends must extend beneath the victim’s skin. The exploiter has to bring about …"

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."

"To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism s…"

"Our anti-Communism came to us neither as the fruit of a special wisdom nor as a humiliating awakening from a prolonged deception, but as a natural event, the product of chance and propinquity. One thi…"

"Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerors, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all togethe…"

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

"One of the wisest things ever said by one of the profoundest philosophers of all time was the warning to the seeker after truth to beware of the influence of the 'idols of the tribe' by which he meant…"

"I think that this stupid Polish society, this fucking bunch of imbeciles who voted for these whores cockroaches from PiS is some fucking misunderstanding!"