Robert Spaemann
View AuthorTelevision systematically destroys the distinction between normal and abnormal, because within its parameters, normal lacks sufficient interest and therefore always needs to be contrasted with an alternative. Its criteria are not the dissemination of values and principles, but rather to provoke the greatest impact.
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorIf it is a duty to respect the rights of others, it is also a duty to maintain one's own.
John Steinbeck
View AuthorPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of losing power.
George Steiner
View AuthorStereotypes are tired truths.
Stendhal
View AuthorThe religions are founded on the fear of many and the liveliness of a few.
Stendhal
View AuthorThe full equality of women would be the surest sign of civilization and would double the intellectual forces of the human race.
Robert Louis Stevenson
View AuthorPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is considered necessary.
Johann August Strindberg
View AuthorSociety is a madhouse whose guardians are the police officers.
Jonathan Swift
View AuthorWe have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Tacitus
View AuthorIn a corrupted spirit, there is no room for honor.
Tacitus
View AuthorIn all things there seems to exist as a law a circle.
Tacitus
View AuthorHe began by ruling his house, which, for most men, is no less difficult than governing a province.