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  • Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Slave Owners Quotes , People Quotes
  • Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Simple Quotes , People Quotes
  • A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , People Quotes , Majority Quotes
  • You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , People Quotes