Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.
A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.
I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.
Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.
The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.
There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.
destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.
[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .
Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.
The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.
If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.
The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.
Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.