Shocking Sayings
73 sayings found from the Modern era
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
It is quite clear that the Engine may be used as an aid to the human mind in calculating results, rather than merely performing arithmetic operations.
Let a hundred flowers blossom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
I am a juggler, and I can keep six or seven balls in the air at once. All my life I have been a juggler.
No one is to be in the room with me when I die.
The Turkish nation has been and will be continuously in its history a free and independent nation.
The evil customs of the past shall be broken off, and everything based upon the just laws of nature.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us precisely because he is a scoundrel.
The end result of the revolution is not merely to change the government, but to change the very nature of human society.
I have reached the conclusion that the only way to defend the revolution is to make many enemies.
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, I am all the contrary of a Christ.
I don't think there is any use of my going into the matter of the lynching. I will not say anything about it one way or the other.
The white people of the South are not going to be lectured by the President of the United States.
I've got a new toy that's going to win this war, and it's going to put an end to all wars.
I tell you, the people of this country are more concerned with their pocketbooks than they are with any highfalutin' international policy.
The difficult thing in politics is not to know what to do, but to do it.
The March on Rome was not a coup d'état. It was a revolution, prepared, organized, and executed by the Fascist Party.
Our regime is not at all totalitarian. It is organically national.
It was not a question of massacres, but of self-defense.
I am a man of the people, and I am not afraid of anything. I am an African, and I am proud of it.