Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
W. C. Fields

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
Martin Luther

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller