While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet. – Murray Rothbard
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. – Michael Polanyi
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis. – Maria Monk
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though. – Michael Hirst
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. – Moses Mendelssohn
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore
I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable. – Molly Ringwald
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. – John Updike
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. – Lloyd Alexander
It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs. – John Bruton
I write what I’d like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too. – Lisa Morton
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. – Jean Racine
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. – Michel de Montaigne
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. – Mary Shelley
Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. But it could be brought here. – Mitt Romney
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. – Katherine Mansfield
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. – Laurence Olivier
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. – John Holmes
