What Does Paine Mean By This Quotes

#1. A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

Thomas Paine

#2. Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

#3. Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.

Crystal Paine

#4. Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

Thomas Paine

#5. The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#6. The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Johanna Paungger

#7. If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.

Johnny Trigg

#8. What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

Thomas Paine

#9. Do you think any of us know what we're doing? Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

Anonymous

#10. Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

Fiona Shaw

#11. Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

Thomas Paine

#12. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#13. Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

Penny Marshall

#14. Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine

#15. To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least 'now and then' on 'important matters.'

Marc Thiessen

#17. A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.

Phil Pringle

#18. It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Thomas Paine

#19. Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

Studs Terkel