₦airaland Forum

Hail Cetan

When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.

The best representatives of Nigerian life refuse to go into pulithicks

We don't akpabio women

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance

Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself

A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.