Interesting Quotes - Page 12

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

- Mark Twain

Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small.

- Unknown, falsely attributed to Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Henry Kissinger

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

- Don Marquis

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

- George Orwell

Page:1...1011121314...23

Also see:

Level 71

Apr 9, 2020

Napoleon Bonaparte ......"Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs"

Level 58

May 10, 2020

59 is already featured (number 11)

Level 67

Aug 26, 2021

I think you're missing the point.

Level 68

Sep 19, 2022

11. "There is nothing new under the sun."

59. "There is no new thing under the sun."

The quotes are correct.

Level 65

Sep 23, 2020

Realism right there by Dr. Henry

Level 44

Feb 10, 2021

#60 - You can say that about almost all western countries

+15

Level ∞

Mar 4, 2021

I can imagine a vociferous argument between professors from Sweden, England, and the United States who each insist that their country is the worst, most vile, racist country in the entire history of the world.

"We suck"

"Oh yeah, we suck worse"

"No it is we who truly suck"

Level 63

May 31, 2021

its obviously england tho

Level 56

May 4, 2022

They are all equally awful

Level 83

Dec 2, 2023

Sweden was very prominent during the early modern period in Europe, made several attempts at Empire, had colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, and participated in the slave trade. The fact that they were less successful than other Western European empires isn't testament to their lesser ambitions.

Level 59

Dec 29, 2022

*cough* Switzerland *cough*

Level 84

May 10, 2021

"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality."

The American intellectual class is racing to catch up, and has probably passed them.