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Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.

– Abraham Lincoln

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

– Michael J. Gelb

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

– Jean Genet

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

– Author Unknown

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

– John W. Hanley

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

– Agatha Christie

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

– Kahlil Gibran

Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship in that country. This is why as ambassadors for Christ we beseech people to be reconciled to God by faith in Christ now. If they confess Him as Lord with a heart of faith--now, while the doors of salvation are wide open, they will be saved (Rom. 109,10). Later they are forced to confess His Lordship to vindicate Christ's righteous judgment of them and the worthiness of their eternal doom. Confession does not bring the confessor salvation. It is too late, for the 'accepted time' for salvation has forever passed.

– Vernon Schutz

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

– Robert Benchley

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

– Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

– Laurence J. Peter

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

– Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

– Marquis de Flers Robert

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

– E. B. White

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

– H.L. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

– H. L. Mencken

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

– Clement Atlee

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

– Oscar Wilde

Destiny, Fate, Dreams, These unstoppable ideals are held deep in the heart of man; as long as there are people who seek freedom in this life; these things shall not vanish from the earth.

– Gold Rodgers

Determined people working together can do anything.

– Jim Casey, Founder of UPS

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

– Henry Miller

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

– Henry Miller

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

– Dagobert D. Runes

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