#wit

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#aside #country #infer #institution #just

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#away #brother #doing #four #got

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend. ↗

— David Irving

#extent #friend #greatest #hitler #israel

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. ↗

— David Irving

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #i #made

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything. ↗

— Bil Keane

#hugs #invented #know #love #people

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. ↗

— Walter Scott

#exact #fewest #greatest #motive #obstacles

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#biology #connections #family #good #growing

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. ↗

— John Jay

#earth #our #power #property #right

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#because #become #deplorable #each #especially