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| Quotations of the Day: January 2007 |
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January 31, 2007
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you—try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God’s will yourself!
—Thomas Merton
January 30, 2007
Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 29, 2007
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
—Thomas Paine
January 28, 2007
When I say artist I don’t mean in the narrow sense of the word—but the man who is building things—creating molding the earth—whether it be the plains of the west—or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction—some with a brush—some with a shovel—some choose a pen.
—Jackson Pollock
January 27, 2007
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.
—Learned Hand
January 26, 2007
Reading about one’s failings in the daily papers is one of the privileges of high office in this free country of ours.
—Nelson A. Rockefeller
January 25, 2007
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
—Somerset Maugham
January 24, 2007
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
—Robert Motherwell
January 23, 2007
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material … but I know it [pornography] when I see it.
—Potter Stewart
January 22, 2007
There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
—Lord Byron
January 21, 2007
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.
—Charles de Gaulle
January 20, 2007
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
—George Burns
January 19, 2007
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 18, 2007
The more it / GOES-tiddely-pom / The more it / GOES-tiddely-pom / On / Snowing.
—A.A. Milne
January 17, 2007
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
—Benjamin Franklin
January 16, 2007
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
—Norman Podhoretz
January 15, 2007
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
—Molière
January 14, 2007
Extinct is forever.
—Friends of Animals
January 13, 2007
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
—James Joyce
January 12, 2007
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
January 11, 2007
Advertising causes conflicts at exactly the most vulnerable age for children to be in conflict with parents.
—John Condry
January 10, 2007
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
—Lord Acton
January 9, 2007
In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. If to-day we could prove to Republicans or Democrats that every woman would vote for their party, we should be enfranchised.
—Carrie Chapman Catt
January 8, 2007
Heaven open’d wide / Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, / On golden hinges moving.
—John Milton
January 7, 2007
A government of laws and not of men.
—John Adams
January 6, 2007
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
—Kahlil Gibran
January 5, 2007
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible … to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
—Susan Sontag
January 4, 2007
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
—André Gide
January 3, 2007
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
—J.R.R. Tolkien
January 2, 2007
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
—Isaac Asimov
January 1, 2007
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.
—Nancy Banks-Smith
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