Famous Quotes / William J. Durant
27 Quotations by William J. Durant
- 1. Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
- 2. Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, ...
- 3. Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-cre ...
- 4. Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
- 5. Forget past mistakes and forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and ...
- 6. History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a sel ...
- 7. Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
- 8. It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r ...
- 9. Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
- 10. Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
- 11. Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- 12. Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- 13. Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
- 14. No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- 15. No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- 16. Nothing is new except arrangement.
- 17. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
- 18. The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- 19. The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than the ...
- 20. There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.