False Quotes - page 4

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." (Carl Schurz)
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. View quote
Kent Nerburn
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things. View quote
Mary Hart
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Anything but history, for history must be false. View quote
Robert Walpole
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience. View quote
Maurice Allais
Look at your body- A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. View quote
Camille Claudel
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. View quote
Marquis de Sade
The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. (William Hazlitt)
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. View quote
George Soros
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise and some are false, but only three are holy 'I will it' View quote
Ayn Rand
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Humor aside, I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. "Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. View quote
Theodor Adorno
I know a maiden fair to see, Take care She can both false and friendly be, Beware Beware. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. View quote
Ron Paul
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. (Cicero)
I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims. View quote
Wesley Clark
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. View quote
Montesquieu
There various news I heard of love and strife, Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life, Of loss and gain, of famine and of store, Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore, Of prodigies, and portents seen in air, Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair, Of turns of fortune, changes in the state, The fall of favourites, projects of the great, Of aid mismanagements, taxations new: All neither wholly false, nor wholly true. View quote
Alexander Pope