Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Albert Einstein quotes

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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