“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Sri Lanka was wiling to take the lead in forming a multilateral forum with UN support to ensure the maritime security of the Indian Ocean, quoted on The Economic Times: India, "Sri Lanka willing to set up forum to secure Indian Ocean: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe" http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/sri-lanka-willing-to-set-up-forum-to-secure-indian-ocean-pm-ranil-wickremesinghe/articleshow/49898118.cms, November 23, 2015.
“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”
Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady
Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XV.
Merav Michaeli (1966) Israeli politician
About Benjamin Netanyahu, as quoted in Demonstrators flood the streets demanding equal rights for gays https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Hundreds-demonstrate-for-LGBT-rights-in-Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv-and-Haifa-563115 (July 22, 2018) by Rocky Baier, The Jerusalem Post.
Bill Mollison (1928–2016) Australian permaculturist
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.2
“National unity is the basis of national security.”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).
Judicial opinions
Context: National unity is the basis of national security. To deny the legislature the right to select appropriate means for its attainment presents a totally different order of problem from that of the propriety of subordinating the possible ugliness of littered streets to the free expression opinion through handbills.
John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911) United States Union Army officer and Supreme Court Associate Justice
We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow-citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.
1890s, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 8, The Sociological View
Jürgen Habermas (1929) German sociologist and philosopher
Source: On the Pragmatics of Communication, 1998, p. 23
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Indian politician
Source: Kedar Nath Kumar Political Parties in India, Their Ideology and Organisation http://books.google.co.in/books?id=x3pJ8t4rxIsC&pg=PA153, Mittal Publications, 1 January 1990, p. 153<br><br>As President of Indian National Congress in 1972