Thinks

Famous quotes containing the word thinks:

    Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
    —Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)

    One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)