A constitution to be maintained intact must be the achievement and the pride of the people themselves; must rest on their own free will and on their determination to sustain it, instead of being something resident in another land whose chief representative is an armed force armed not to protect the population, but to hold it down.
A woman either loves of hates.
All men by nature desire to know.
All that one should know about modern life is where the Duchesses are; anything else is quite demoralising.
All the things which I denied could happen are now happening.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Anything you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Anything you do to the facts falsifies them, but anything the facts do to you ... transforms them into poetry.
Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote The Golden Ass.
As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.
Being a woman is hard work.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
But at the same time, like I say the solution to greed is less greed. I also think that much as I admire Gandhi, I also think he terrorised people into thinking that the only other way was to wear a loincloth and eat goat curd. I don't think so. Theoretically, in our heads, we must understand that it is possible to have fun, to be beautiful, to love music, to live life to its fullest, not necessarily to renounce all the wonderful things. But the wonderful things are not gadgets, there are wonderful things that come if you can be a little less greedy, to do with a little less than what you have. You don't have to be a saint, you don't have to go around with a halo around your head. You can be as naughty as you like. Actually, it would be a better world. At least you'd be able to breathe the air.
But over all things brooding slept the quiet sense of something lost.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube: There are some things one would rather have done than do.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.
From denial to denial, his existence is diminished: vaguer and more unreal than a syllogism of sighs, how could he still be a creature of flesh and blood? Anemic, he rivals the Idea itself; he has abstracted himself from his ancestors, from his friends, from every soul and himself; in his veins, once turbulent, rests a light from another world. Liberated from what he has lived, unconcerned by what he will live; he demolishes the signposts on all his roads, and wrests himself from the dials of all time. "I shall never meet myself again," he decides, happy to turn his last hatred against himself, happier still to annihilate in his forgiveness all beings, all things.
Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power.
God has delivered yourself to your care, and says, "I had no fitter to trust than you."
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
He must of necessity fear many whom many fear.
He talks nonsense.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
He who hesitates is last.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
History is economics in action.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
I mean, listen, Mom and Dad love children in the Muslim world just like we do in America, and they've got to understand that that there are some common beliefs that we share that will make and the Peace Corps is a good way to spread that message.
I might point out here that colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the in terests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power structure, but an international power structure. This international power structure is used to suppress the masses of darkskinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources.
I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.
If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.
If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, "I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers," if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men,
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
In the final analysis, "style" is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
In this surrender if such it may be called the National Government does not even stoop to conquer. It simply lifts itself to the height of its original principle. The early efforts of its best negotiators, the patriotic trial of its soldiers ... may at least prevail.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Individual Christians are the only ones really and Jewish people, those who trust God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the only ones that are qualified to have the reign, because hopefully, they will be governed by God and submit to Him.
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
It is the industry which is carried on for the benefit of the rich and the powerful, that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and indigent, is too often, either neglected, or oppressed.
It is true of the Nation as well as the individual, that the greatest doer must also be the great dreamer.
It is very nearly impossible ... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it won't be allowed.
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Meet the sun every day as if it could cast a ballot.
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
Neither rhyme nor reason.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Now comes the mystery.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Press close bare-bosomed night press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My vocation has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool cucumbers is the word easy, easy only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys that's all. Start her!
Technological Unemployment. This term taken literally, of course, has always been intended to cover only displacement of workmen by machinery. We make it cover a much wider range and include...also the effects ...on employment in firms or industries that are competed with by the firms of industries that introduce new production functions. Questionnaires devised to find out from workmen reasons for their dismissal can, therefore, never bring out the phenomenon we mean and will always yield results that understate it.
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril ... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
The earth is our throne and the Sea a mighty Minstrell playing before it.
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The hospital strikers have demonstrated that you don't get a job done unless you show the Man you're not afraid ... If you're not willing to pay that price, then you don't deserve the rewards or benefits that go along with it.
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong.
The Public School! The colleges and other institutions of learning, are they not models of organization, offering the people fine opportunities for instruction? Far from it. The school, more than any other institution, is a veritable barrack, where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible ...
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
The very moment the capitalist press credits me for being a wise labor leader, I will invite you to investigate me upon the charge of treason.
The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
There are two kinds are art: (1) decorative, nonobjective, wallpaper art; and (2) art with a moral purpose.
They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Though the manufacturer has his wages advanced to him by his master, he, in reality, costs him no expense, the value of those wages being generally restored, together with a profit, in the improved value of the subject upon which his labour is bestowed. But the maintenance of a menial servant never is restored. A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers: he grows poor by maintaining a multitude of menial servants.
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.
To teach is to learn twice.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall think of it, ALWAYS.
When love is in excess it brings a man neither honor nor any worthiness.
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies may enjoy their constitutional rights.
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
You seem to think that I am adapted to nothing but the sugar-plums of intellect and had better not try to digest anything stronger.... a writer of popular sketches in magazines; a lecturer before Lyceums and College societies; a dabbler in metaphysics, poetry, and art, than which I would rather die, for if it has come to that, alas! verily, as you say, mediocrity has fallen on the name of Adams.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Your very silence shows you agree.
