The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate f...rom the welfare of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youth, and misfortune... follows happiness (or the other way around). A person can not be healthy and cheerful throughout life. Losses lie waiting and man can not safeguard against death, even if he be Alexander of Macedonia. One must be prepared for anything and consider everything to be inevitably essential, as sad as that may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as ag...ainst despots. What is it? Distrust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will ...bear it farther than suns and stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I do see, still, a beautiful result of the old order that the new order does not tend to produce. The conventional avoidance as... a general subject of conversation of sex in all its phases was a safeguard to sensibilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable part...s. That would solve the entire problem of management.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the heal...thful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolu...tion in order to establish the dictatorship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children pr...otection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »