Manus haec inimica tyrannis
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
--
This hand, the rule of tyrants to oppose Seeks with the sword fair freedom's soft repose.
--
As quoted in Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney; his father wrote to him (30 August 1660): "It is said that the University of Copenhagen brought their album unto you, desiring you to write something; and that you did scribere in albo these words".Algernon Sydney
» Algernon Sydney - all quotes »
"Petit pays, petit esprit."
Leopold II of Belgium
The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology…. The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!
Jean Baudrillard
Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis
aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?Lucretius
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.
Benjamin Franklin
Eripuit Coelo fulmen, mox Sceptra Tyrannis.
Benjamin Franklin
Sydney, Algernon
Sylva, Buddy de
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z