“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
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“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”
“There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.”
“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”
“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
“I am alone I am always alone no matter what.”
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”
“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”