Chinks in America’s egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. Florence King

Quotes November 23, 2008

Chinks in America’s egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Democracy
Quotations by Florence King

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.TalentQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.Right and RightnessQuotations by Mahatma Gandhi

Life begins on the other side of despair.DespairQuotations by Jean-Paul Sartre

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them.GoalsQuotations …

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.Life and LivingQuotations …

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.PleasureQuotations by Young

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.Judgment and …

Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.CalamityQuotations by Seneca

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.BeautyQuotations by Sappho

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by …