Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
-Seneca the Younger
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
If something is considered right at a particular place at a particular time, the
same thing is rendered useless with the change of place and time. In that case,
of what relevance is the list of good and bad deeds that we are working upon?
-Deep Trivedi
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
-Jim Rohn