“We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.”
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“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”
“We humans are more concerned with having than with being.”
“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”
“Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?”
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
“There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.”
“We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.”
“If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.”
“Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!”
“I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.”
“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.”
“Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.”
“Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.”
“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
“Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!”
“Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.”
“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.”
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
“A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.”