Shocking Sayings

The male is more divine than the female.

A state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Man is by nature a political animal.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

To love someone is to identify with them.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

The many are more incorruptible than the few.

The citizen in an absolute sense is not defined by any other thing so much as by his participation in the judicial and executive power.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The human race is a single species, but it is divided into many races.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape the condemnation of hell?

I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.