history of this quote “The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.” by Alexander Pope Alexander Pope
“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.” Voltaire
history of this quote “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.” by George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw
“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.” John Stuart Mill
“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.” John Stuart Mill
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” John Stuart Mill
“The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that…he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.” Alexis de Tocqueville
history of this quote “Teach me to feel another’s wo, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.” by Alexander Pope Alexander Pope
