Quote by Denis Diderot
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. – Denis Diderot

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot

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Truth
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot

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Health
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. – Denis Diderot

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If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you. – Neal Boortz

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesnt work and then they get elected and prove it. – P. J. ORourke

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You know why theres a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. – Rush Limbaugh

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Government

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. – Rick Perry

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Government

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Of course, not everybodys willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, – if the experiments dont work, then it means its not science. – Seth Lloyd

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Theres a book called The Shack – it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal. – Rodney Atkins

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. – Thucydides

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Ill never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You cant go back in life. I wont go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. – Karl Rove

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