„It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone-that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is, far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous.“

— H.L. Mencken
„There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."“
— Michael Parenti
„Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment is more normal than arrival.“
— John C. Maxwell
„A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.“
— Leonard Bernstein
„Artistic talent is far more common than the talent toartistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.“
— Stephen King
„The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.“
— Nikola Tesla
„No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.“
— Will Durant