The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
Garrison Keillor

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Nikita Khrushchev

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
Charles Stanley

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle