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The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done.
— George Robertson, Baron Robertson Of Port Ellen
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.
— Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
— Baron D'Holbach
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Of two evils, choose the more interesting.
— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
— Baron De Montesquieu
The atheist ... destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
— Baron D'Holbach
We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country
— Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
— Baron D'Holbach
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
— Baron D'Holbach
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
— Baron D'Holbach
Women love energy and grand results.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
— Baron D'Holbach
I enjoyed being anonymous.
— Sacha Baron Cohen
It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
— Baron D'Holbach
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
— Baron D'Holbach
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
— Baron D'Holbach
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
— Baron D'Holbach
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.
— Michael Levy, Baron Levy
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers.
— Steve Silberman
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
— Baron De Montesquieu
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
— Baron Vaughn
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
— Baron De Montesquieu
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
— Baron De Montesquieu
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Life is not to live merely, but to live well.
— Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
Competition for status is a zero sum game
— Richard Layard, Baron Layard