Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert H. Humphrey

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore Vidal

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
Paris Hilton

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
Dean Koontz

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
John Piper

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Luis Bunuel

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes