"False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing."

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Source : Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.239, Routledge

Joseph de Maistre

#Money Quotes #Men Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The teacher you need is the person you're living with.”
“Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.”
“Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.”
“Keep scribbling! Something will happen.”
“Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.”

Source : "The Call of Freedom". "Orations and Addresses" by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1894.
“To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.”
“Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.”
“Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.203, Open Road Media

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