+ It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Danger, Multiplication, Weakness, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
+ Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Generosity, Justice, Mercy, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Equality, Power, Skepticism, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
+ History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Illumination, Memory, Soul, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
+ Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Fanaticism, Passions, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Control, Land, Power, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
+ Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Duty, Responsibility, Rights, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
+ Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Acton, Crime, Liberty, Religion, 0 Lord Acton Historian · England
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. William Morris Designer · England
