Least Quotes - page 23

The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies. (Otto Ohlendorf)
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted. View quote
Che Guevara
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. View quote
Eric Hoffer
They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. View quote
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. View quote
Jay London
If everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position. View quote
Hillary Clinton
If you can't be kind, at least be vague. View quote
Judith Martin
Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries-God, the nature of the universe, etc.-he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to. (John Green (author))
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart. View quote
John Green (author)
Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me! View quote
George Rickey
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. View quote
Maurice Strong
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least. View quote
Mario Bunge
This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles. View quote
Julian Jaynes
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority. View quote
Jacques Barzun
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered. View quote
Jack McDevitt
I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! View quote
Leo Tolstoy
... when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least. View quote
Mark Twain
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap. View quote
Antonín Dvořák