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“In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue.”
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“We shed blood to take the word `Grexit' away from the mouth of foreigners, and Syriza is bringing this word back to their mouths,”
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“The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.”
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“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”
Source : Attributed in "On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 78), 2004.
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“I've always had good mechanics and stuff like that.”
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“Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.”
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“Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.”
Source : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (Part 5, XXII), 1886.
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“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”
Source : "Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2012.