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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Quote by Lord Acton about moral, consequences, morality, wealth, society, man, rightness

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Quote by John Adams about liberty, rightness, real estate

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace...

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about worry, peace

Proper disposal of chewing gum is in the carpet.

Proper disposal of chewing gum is in the carpet.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about real estate

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and...

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Quote by Pierre Bayle about history, criminals, human imperfections, nothing

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about value, use

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Quote by James Lane Allen about dream, prophecy, promise, vision, ideal, day

If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really...

If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag.

Quote by Jackie Collins about sex

The perfection of a person is proportional to how much...

The perfection of a person is proportional to how much you love him/her and the imperfection of a person is proportional to how much you hate him/her.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, people, perfection, hate

The chance a copy machine will brake down is proportional to the importance of the material that needs to be copied and inversely proportional to the amount of time till the material will be needed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, chance, time

An employee rank is in inverse proportion to his use of a...

An employee rank is in inverse proportion to his use of a computer, and in proportion to its performance.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use

The survivability of a system is directly proportional to the price of the cooling system applied to it and inversely proportional to the amount of use it sees.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use

The distance to your departure gate is directly proportional to the weight of your carry on luggage and inversely proportional to the time remaining before your flight.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about flight, time

This means that each country, in addition to the general...

This means that each country, in addition to the general properties common to the whole world, also has its own specific properties.

Quote by Paracelsus about country, common sense, world

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about question

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their...

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about man, doubt

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine about experience, prophecy, man

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; 3. Hope to all.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about politics, end, security, nation, hope

O my prophetic soul.

O my prophetic soul.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, soul

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