Big Books of 2026

James > James's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 2,237
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 74 75
sort by

    like
  • #1
    H.L. Mencken
    “The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
    31 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Diogenes Laertius
    “Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”
    ― Diogenes
    tags: time
    265 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
    814 likes

    • like
  • #4
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: bhagavad-gita, death, destruction, nuclear-weapons
    358 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Sigmund Freud
    “All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    19 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Anatole France
    “Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: la-vie-en-fleur
    26 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Anatole France
    “We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: bible, devil, god, scriptures
    255 likes

    • like
  • #8
    H.L. Mencken
    “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
    ― H. L. Mencken, Minority Report
    tags: democracy
    106 likes

    • like
  • #9
    H.L. Mencken
    “I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    225 likes

    • like
  • #10
    H.L. Mencken
    “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    156 likes

    • like
  • #11
    H.L. Mencken
    “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: politics
    249 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Abraham Lincoln
    “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, elections, irony
    167 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
    tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism
    840 likes

    • like
  • #14
    “Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.”
    ― Marvin Simkin
    tags: democracy, freedom, paraphrase-gary-strand, rights, vote
    160 likes

    • like
  • #15
    H.L. Mencken
    “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
    tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office
    355 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1655 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
    1602 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “He who builds on the people, builds on the mud”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    127 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: censorship, dissent, society, suppression, trouble
    256 likes

    • like
  • #20
    H.L. Mencken
    “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
    tags: government, government-corruption, independance, liberty
    83 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Ray Bradbury
    “Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: democracy, diversity, minorities
    559 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Joseph Stalin
    “It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”
    ― Stalin
    25 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Joseph Stalin
    “In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    40 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
    1212 likes

    • like
  • #26
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! ”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    73 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Joseph Stalin
    “It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    123 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Bruce Feirstein
    “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
    ― Bruce Feirstein
    tags: genius, insanity, success, truth
    156 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
    tags: insanity, logic, mind
    154 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Derek Landy
    “Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: fun, humor, humorous, insanity, lunatics
    168 likes

    • like
  • #31
    “As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.”
    ― Miles Keaton Andrew
    tags: sanity
    13 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 74 75
All Quotes



Tags From James’s Quotes

time
compassion
death
execution
intelligence
scholars
thinkers
bhagavad-gita
destruction
nuclear-weapons
la-vie-en-fleur
bible
devil
god
scriptures
democracy
politics
elections
irony
communism
dishonesty
funny
humour
politicians
revolution
socialism
freedom
paraphrase-gary-strand
rights
vote
belief
government
humor
ignorance
pathetic
political-commentary
public-office
elite
elitism
elitist
meritocracy
peasant
voter
voting
conscience
majority
right-and-wrong
truth
wrong
censorship
dissent
society
suppression
trouble
government-corruption
independance
liberty
diversity
minorities
political-philosophy
genius
insanity
success
logic
mind
fun
humorous
lunatics
sanity