A J Ayer Famous Quotes



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"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
Kim Hubbard

"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror."
Betty Naomi Friedan

I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
John G Riefenbaker

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Robert Anton Wilson

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Horace Mann

God help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson Mizner

"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."
Lyndon B Johnson

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco