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| Quotations of the Day: March 2008 |
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March 31, 2008
The rebel, unlike the revolutionary, does not attempt to undermine the social order as a whole. The rebel attacks the tyrant; the revolutionary attacks tyranny.
—Octavio Paz
March 30, 2008
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
—Antonin Artaud
March 29, 2008
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
—Karl Kraus
March 28, 2008
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
—Aristide Briand
March 27, 2008
I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn’t like is being shown as a silly ass.
—David Low
March 26, 2008
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the transpolitical is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
—Jean Baudrillard
March 25, 2008
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg
March 24, 2008
I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.
—W.H. Auden
March 23, 2008
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
—Patrick Henry
March 22, 2008
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
—Stephen Decatur
March 21, 2008
Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
—Jimmy Carter
March 20, 2008
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
—Colin Powell
March 19, 2008
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
—Philip Roth
March 18, 2008
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
—John Updike
March 17, 2008
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mission unrecognized by political economists. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
—Lydia M. Child
March 16, 2008
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
—Daniel Patrick Moynihan
March 15, 2008
Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once.
—William Shakespeare
March 14, 2008
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England.
—Sir Thomas Malory
March 13, 2008
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
—Jeremy Bentham
March 12, 2008
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn.
—Jack Kerouac
March 11, 2008
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
—Torquato Tasso
March 10, 2008
Honest poverty lives happily; ill gotten wealth worries.
—Chinese proverb
March 9, 2008
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
—George Burns
March 8, 2008
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
March 7, 2008
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
—William Penn
March 6, 2008
The marble not yet carved can hold the form Of every thought the greatest artist has.
—Michelangelo Buonarroti
March 5, 2008
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg
March 4, 2008
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
—Paul Newman
March 3, 2008
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.
—Thomas Otway
March 2, 2008
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
—John Jay Chapman
March 1, 2008
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, / It’s the light of the oncoming train.
—Robert Lowell
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