"Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them."

-- William Hazlitt

#Order Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".”
“As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!”

Source : "David McCallum and Marg Helgenberger Take on Zeus and Hera in the Wonder Woman Animated Film". movieweb.com. December 17, 2008.
“I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get”
“That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?”
“The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.”

Source : "Withstanding Hitler" by Michael Balfour, (p. 130), 1988.
“When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.”
“And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.”
“Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.”

Source : "The 'Bradley effect' and Obama" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

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