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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Quote by Frank Herbert about common sense, sense, contentment

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Quote by Herodotus about risk, fear, being

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about knowledge

A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, students, teachers

The percent of time spent bickering over what to do next is inversely proportional to the importance of the subject being fought over.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about being, time

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Quote by Don Marquis about age, olderness, old, contentment

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about people, love

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about success, animals

Precise knowledge of what happens to the food entering the organism must be the subject of ideal physiology, the physiology of the future.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about happiness, food, future, knowledge, ideal

It's a taboo subject that is protected by legal and criminal law, and the only opinion one can express about it is that allowed by law.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about law, criminals, opinion

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, city, wealth, life

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Quote by Adam Smith about virtue, excess, vice, conscience

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, time, life

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Quote by Hannah Arendt about death, unforeseen, end, human imperfections, things, life

We all need the freedom to die noble in a life that has been unworthy of us, being subject to sin and emptiness.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about liberty, sin, wisdom, need, death, being, life

Not all donuts have a hole and not all holes have donuts around them, so every mistake is relative and every perfection is subjective.

CQuote by Corina Abdulahm Negura