Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.
I just want it to go back to the way it was. " "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.