#misattributed

To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#misattributed #men

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#misattributed-to-dorothy-parker #money

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#misattributed #nobility #character

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. ↗

— Elmer T Peterson

#misattributed-to-de-tocqueville #democracy

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#misattributed #darkness

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#misattributed-to-j-k-rowling #equality

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. ↗

— Alan Moore

#equality #government #misattributed #equality

There is no beauty without some strangeness ↗