All Sayings

587 sayings found

I don’t want to see a single DVD in my house ever again. I want to burn them all.

— Reed Hastings 2010
Strange & Unusual

I’m a truth-seeking missile.

— Travis Kalanick 2014
Strange & Unusual

Competition is for losers.

— Peter Thiel 2014
Strange & Unusual

I think the most interesting companies are the ones that seem crazy at first.

— Sam Altman 2014
Strange & Unusual

The courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.

— Aristotle c. 350 BCE
Controversial

All men are therefore equal, not in the sense that they are all alike, but in the sense that they all have the same rights and duties.

— Immanuel Kant 1797
Controversial

The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1889
Controversial

The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

— Karl Marx 1848
Controversial

I believe in anything necessary to correct unjust conditions, political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

— Malcolm X 1964
Strange & Unusual

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

— Jose de San Martin Undated, but likely during his active years as a leader (early 19th century)
Humorous

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are only rather thoughtless: the old ones are corrupt.

— Montesquieu 1721
Controversial

The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.

— Adam Smith 1776
Controversial

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine 1776
Controversial

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

— Plato c. 375 BCE
Humorous

It is a great folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.

— Moliere 1666
Controversial

If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?

— John von Neumann 1950
Controversial

All parts of the body are formed in the semen.

— Galen 180 CE
Controversial

I'm not a science fiction writer. I've only written one science fiction book in my life, and that's 'Fahrenheit 451.' All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury 2001
Controversial

I’m not a fan of organized religion. I think it’s a way of controlling people.

— Haruki Murakami 2011
Controversial

Some people are saying that the film 'Joker' is dangerous, and it is. Because it's so good. It's so good.

— Stephen King 2019
Controversial