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| Quotations of the Day: June 2005 |
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June 30, 2005
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
—Henry James
June 29, 2005
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
June 28, 2005
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
—James Madison
June 27, 2005
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
—Helen Keller
June 26, 2005
Without the United Nations our country would walk alone, ruled by fear instead of confidence and hope.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
June 25, 2005
If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.
—Lord Louis Mountbatten
June 24, 2005
We will not have peace by afterthought.
—Norman Cousins
June 23, 2005
Dance then wherever you may be, / I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, / And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be / And I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he.
—Sydney Carter
June 22, 2005
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
—Giuseppe Mazzini
June 21, 2005
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
June 20, 2005
A moral consensus now exists in this country that discriminating against blacks as teachers, priests, or tenants is simply wrong. (That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.) For much of the country, however, the moral legitimacy of homosexuals, remains very much in question.
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
June 19, 2005
Never Explain—your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
—Elbert Hubbard
June 18, 2005
It must be a peace without victory.… Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand.
—Woodrow Wilson
June 17, 2005
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, / ring with the harmonies of liberty. / Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; / Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
—James Weldon Johnson
June 16, 2005
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows no deep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
June 15, 2005
For what avail the plough or sail, / Or land or life, if freedom fail?
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 14, 2005
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism—victimless collecting, as it were … in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage.
—Susan Sontag
June 13, 2005
Say to the seceded States, “Wayward sisters, depart in peace.”
—Winfield Scott
June 12, 2005
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable’s handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are being overloaded.
—Charles Kingsley
June 11, 2005
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
—Irving Howe
June 10, 2005
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
—F. Lee Bailey
June 9, 2005
We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.
—Robert S. McNamara
June 8, 2005
If the sea were ink / For the words of my Lord, / the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.
—Qur’an
June 7, 2005
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
—George Santayana
June 6, 2005
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
—Alexander Hamilton
June 5, 2005
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
—John Maynard Keynes
June 4, 2005
The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.
—John Adams
June 3, 2005
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, / starving hysterical naked.
—Allen Ginsberg
June 2, 2005
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
—Thomas Hardy
June 1, 2005
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
—John Masefield
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