The conscience of a people is their power.
Quote by John Dryden
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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John Dryden Quotes
- Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
- Beware of the fury of the patient man.
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
- A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
- Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
Best Quotes
- The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
- I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
- All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
- It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
- Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
- Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.