Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Karl Marx

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx