“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”
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Angry Quotes — page 144 of 1190
“We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.”
“There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”
“The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.”
“Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.”
“I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth”
“All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.”
“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.”
“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
“I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.”
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
“Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.”
“Very few people can afford to be poor.”
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.”
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
“I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.”
“Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated”