If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. – Rush Limbaugh
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. – Majel Barrett
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. – Brian Eno
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. – Samuel Richardson
Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. – Annie Lennox
