Shocking Sayings

The liberty of blacks could be guaranteed only under an independent black government.

women may not be appointed to any type of public leadership position in the Jewish community.

Enemies are not to be despised, however humble; and friends are not to be trusted, however great.

the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp.

Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

It is not worth my while to manufacture in three countries only; but I can find it very worthwhile to make it for the whole world.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

I am not surprised that men are not grateful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which He has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow creatures.

Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.