A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Gåsen åd en møtrik og syntes det var herligt, men da ægget skulle ud, da var det lidt besværligt. Lægge æg er ikke sjovt, når måsen knap har skind på, men endnu værre er det dog, når ægget har gevind på!
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it
Man is unique in that he knows nothing. He can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, in fact he can do nothing by natural instinct alone except weep
Menneskelivet er hovedsagelig en proces, der består i at udfylde tiden, indtil døden eller julemanden kommer, og hvor man ikke har ret stor mulighed, om overhovedet nogen, for at vælge hvad man skal lave i den lange ventetid.
Når folk i gamle dage begyndte noget nyt eller lagde ud på en stor rejse, ønskede de hinanden "Gud i vold". Det er større ord, end de fleste af os tør bruge i dag. Men de ord var udtryk for en dyb tillid, trods livets usikre vilkår.
The five factors which accomplish all actions are - the scene of action i.e. the body, the doer, the instruments or the sensory organs or the faculties, the efforts i.e. the motions or the impulses, and providence i.e. the divine factors.