Quotes

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. - Satchel Paige

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. - Roberto Rossellini; 1906-1977

Just as there must be balance in what a community produces, so there must also be balance in what the community consumes. - John Kenneth Galbraith

into your day, consider these words of wisdom

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name? - Graham Greene

A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern. - Moss Hart; 1904-1961

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise. - Moss Hart; 1904-1961

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell; 1903-1950, Animal Farm

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. - Bergen Evans; 1904-1978

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. - Adlai E. Stevenson; 1900-1965

Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom. - Adlai E. Stevenson; 1900-1965

The art of government has grown from its seeds in the tiny city-states of Greece to become the political mode of half the world. So let us dream of a world in which all states, great and small, work together for the peaceful flowering of the republic of man. - Adlai E. Stevenson; 1900-1965

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political. - Ignazio Silone; 1900-1978

When an American says that he loves his country, he means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. - Adlai E. Stevenson; 1900-1965

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. - Adlai E. Stevenson; 1900-1965

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. - Ernest Hemingway; 1899-1961

Grace under pressure. - Definition of "guts" - Ernest Hemingway; 1899-1961

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. - Ernest Hemingway; 1899-1961

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. - Fredrich August von Hayek

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand. - Fredrich August von Hayek

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. - Fredrich August von Hayek

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. - Robert E. Sherwood

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. - Baroness Edith Summerskill

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. - Bella Abzug

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, ... it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain

Crime does not pay... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

All Bibles are man-made. - Thomas Edison

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. - Albert Einstein

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. - Thomas Edison

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently, Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them. - André Gide

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson