“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
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“And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.”
“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”
“The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”
“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”
“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.”
“Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.”
“Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.”
“Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.”
“A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.”
“Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.”
“You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.”
“There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.”
“Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.”
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”
“The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.”
“Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.”
“One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.”
“Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.”