I am just a player trying to do what Im told.
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. . . . In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to himher, but heshe also hates you.
The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.