quotes by people whose name begins with a b:
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
Francis Bacon
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior."
Francis Bacon
"The urge to destroy is a creative urge."
Mikhail Bakunin
"One of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they seem to sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Baldwin
"Freedom is not something that can be given, freedom is something that people take."
James Baldwin
"In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom."
J.G.Ballard, Running Wild
"If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it."
Maurice Baring
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
J.M. Barrie, Golden Book
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
Basho
"One should try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing."
Arnold Bax
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
"They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant then it's night once more."
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
"If it was raining soup, we'd be out with forks."
Brendan Behan
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
Warren Bennis
"Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it so often engaged in crucifying others."
Nicholai Aleksandrovich Berdyayev
"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."
George Berkeley
"Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die."
Bible, Isaiah 22:13
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
Niels Bohrs
"A metaphysician is a man who goes into a dark cellar at mignight without a light, looking for a black cat that is not there"
Lord Bowen
"The worst things that have happened in my life have been because of human emotion. We need to be more futuristic from my bitter experience of life so far."
James Dean Bradfield, Thanks Ben
"There is no time for hatred, only questions: What is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?"
Jeff Buckley, Eternal Life