"For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined."

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Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#Law Quotes #Long Quotes #Association Quotes

“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
“Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.”

Source : Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925
“Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.”
“Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist”
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his.”

Source : Paul Johnson (2013). “Modern Times: A History of the World From the 1920s to the Year 2000”, Hachette UK
“One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.”
“You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.”
“All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.”

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