Bernard Quotes
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
