Walter Bagehot
View AuthorIt is good to be free from vices, but it is very bad to have no temptations.
Walter Bagehot
View AuthorYou can talk about the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius, but the real tyranny is that of the next-door neighbor.
John Baines
View AuthorThe first step to solving problems is optimism. Just believing that something can be done is already halfway there and victory is very close.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorI am only free to the extent that I recognize the humanity and respect the freedom of all men around me.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorThe state is an immense cemetery where all manifestations of individual life go to be buried.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorIf society had not been invented, man would have continued to be a wild beast, or, what amounts to the same thing, a saint.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorIn even the purest democracies, such as the United States and Switzerland, a privileged minority holds power over the enslaved majority.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorUniformity is death; diversity is life.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorPowerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorThe state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.
Baldwin I
View AuthorIt takes twenty or more years of peace to make a man, and twenty seconds of war are enough to destroy him.
James Baldwin
View AuthorAbove talent are common values: discipline, love, good luck, but above all, tenacity.