#lone

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#exploitation #law #made #misery #naked

Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #loneliness #death

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#alone #always #hope #important #keeping

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#around #definition #fairness #force #like

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#lonely #play #sometimes #trying #very

No man is an island. No man stands alone. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#island #man #stands

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. ↗

— Giuseppe Verdi

#alone #am #art #bear #emotion

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#advantage #alone #lose #society #solitude

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#beginning #embarrassed #end #find #love