“Anything forced is not beautiful.” — Xenophon

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Machiavelli

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

If you have wisdom, you have real wealth.

'In times of deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.'

George Orwell, 1984

'They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.'

- George Orwell, in his book '1984'.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

'A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.'

- George Orwell

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. - Plato

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies...a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.' —Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”

― Immanuel Kant

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”

- Niccolò Machiavelli

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. - Khaldun

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

- Goethe

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

― Marcus Aurelius