Society and the World

I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

At the base of all these aristocratic races the predator is not to be mistaken, the splendorous blond beast, avidly rampant for plunder and victory.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I teach you the superman. Man is something to be surpassed.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Hypotheses non fingo.

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

If I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts (which indeed does not seem quite the thing) I shall drink—to the Pope, if you please—still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

This hath not offended the king.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone,

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.