Quote by Samuel Butler
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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I dont have time to be classified as difficult, and I dont have time to care. – Kim Basinger

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods – Hannah Arendt

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. – Henry Ward Beecher

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