Philosopher Quotes

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.
Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.
Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.
I still have horrible luck with girls.
I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.
Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.
My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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