Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTIt may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANT