"Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Betrayal Quotes #Betrayed Quotes #Violence Quotes

“If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”
“All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.”
“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.”
“Calmness is the cradle of power.”
“Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.”
“Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.”
“We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.”

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