The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
Yo-Yo Ma

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
Meryl Streep

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin Disraeli

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
Dan Quayle

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
Noel Coward

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez