W Quotes
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“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.”
“Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.”
“Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."”
Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series
“Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.”
“Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.”
“Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Graphic Edition
“Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.”
Source: Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
“Whoever can surprise well must conquer.”
“Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.”
“Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.”
“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”
“Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”
Source: Fragments
“Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2”
Source: Jewish Wisdom
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
“Whoever challenges freaks should notice
that in the method he does not mature into a beast.”
“Whoever chooses employees by race is unqualified,
whoever chooses employees by excellence is wise.
Whoever chooses employees by gender is unintelligent,
whoever chooses employees by performance is wise.
Whoever chooses employees by class is unskilled,
whoever chooses employees by resourcefulness is wise.
Whoever chooses employees by appearance is untalented,
whoever chooses employees by effectiveness is wise.
Whoever chooses employees by ethnicity is unenlightened,
whoever chooses employees by productiveness is wise.
Whoever chooses friends by titles is unqualified,
whoever chooses friends by competence is wise.
Whoever chooses friends by reputation is unintelligent,
whoever chooses friends by worthiness is wise.
Whoever chooses friends by wealth is unskilled,
whoever chooses friends by cleverness is wise.
Whoever chooses friends by celebrity is untalented,
whoever chooses friends by reverence is wise.
Whoever chooses friends by power is unenlightened,
whoever chooses friends by goodness is wise.
Whoever chooses leaders by culture is unqualified,
whoever chooses leaders by brilliance is wise.
Whoever chooses leaders by tradition is unintelligent,
whoever chooses leaders by inventiveness is wise.
Whoever chooses leaders by ancestry is unskilled,
whoever chooses leaders by intelligence is wise.
Whoever chooses leaders by politics is untalented,
whoever chooses leaders by kindness is wise.
Whoever chooses leaders by religion unenlightened,
whoever chooses leaders by righteousness is wise.”
“Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.”
“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Whoever claims to be sad after my Death, can easily prove how close we were, through showing or telling what we communicated about.”
“Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.”
“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.”
“Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.”
Source: The Unseen Friend
“Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.”
Source: Report to Greco
“Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.”
“Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.”
“Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.”
“Whoever comes to these shores of liberty, in the hope of life, freedom and happiness, automatically becomes an American, by measure of the same determination and will that made our founding fathers set foot on Plymouth Rock escaping British bigotry, snobbery and barbarism.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.”
“Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.”
“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”
“Whoever conquers must have courage.”
“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”
“Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.”
“Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.”
Source: A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated ... by J. Justamond, M. A. The third edition: revised and corrected. With maps adapted to the work and a copious index
“Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.”
“Whoever controls perception controls reality.”
“Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.”
“Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.”
“Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.”
“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.”
“Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
“Whoever controls the territory possesses it.”
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”