#which

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic government #escape #government #in other words #obligation

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#become #differences #disappear #feeble #give

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#am #american #american president #coming #different

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#details #exactly #fast #get #goes

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing. ↗

— Robert Kocharian

#even #game #lose #which #you

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#hear #slogans #truth #us #which

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#drums #history #man #most #persistent

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#bleached #desert #discarded #eternal #eternal life

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#company #developed #during #electrical #i