#iv

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#best #collective #confessions #crime #discovery

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems. ↗

— Dario Argento

#films #homosexual #i #interested #lives

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ↗

— Aristotle

#children #educate #gave #honored #life

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#act #habit #quality

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ↗

— Aristotle

#called #character #effective #may #means

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ↗

— Aristotle

#better #business #clearly #common #create

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

Most people would rather give than get affection. ↗

— Aristotle

#get #give #most #people #rather

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#get #leave #livelihoods #make #prices