A Quotes
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“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.”
“All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.”
“All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.”
“All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars”
“All grand thoughts come from the heart.”
“All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.”
Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.”
“All great acheivements require time.”
“All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“All great achievements are the product of absorbing, blending and surpassing one’s influences. Nevertheless, it is important to acknowledge the passing of the torch of inspiration from those who have gone before.”
“All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.”
“All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed”
“All great achievements require time.”
“All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.”
Source: The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)
“All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.”
Source: The Replacement
“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”
Source: The Kneebone Boy
“All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.”
Source: Pascal's Pensées: Selections
“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one’s life to its fulfilment”
“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.”
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
Source: East of Eden
“All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift”
“All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.”
“All great art and literature is propaganda.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“All great art comes from a sense of outrage.”
“All great art contains an element of the irrational.”
Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
Source: My heart's in the Highlands
“All great art is a form of complaint”
“All great art is a visual form of prayer.”
“All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.”
“All great art is born of the metropolis.”
“All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.”
“All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.”
“All great art is the experience of man's delight in God's work not his own.”
“All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
Source: The Stones of Venice
“All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.”
“All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.”
Source: Cain's Book
“All great artists and thinkers are great workers.”
“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”
“All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.”
Source: Maps for Lost Lovers
“All great authors are seers.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
“All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.”
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
“All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.”
“All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.”
Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814