Famous Quotes

"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
- John W. Gardner


"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."
- Winston Churchill


"I used to be schizophrenic, but we're OK now."
- Anonymous

Most Controversial Quotes by Hitler

Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Quotes on Religion

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person.

- Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Religion

Famous Quotes

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Famous Quotes by Plato

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone, and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
- Short Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- Alfred North Whitehead Short Quotes

Famous Funny Quotes

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
- Contributed by Douglas Novack


I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
- Famous quote by Susan B. Anthony