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Whenever government’s interests become by definition more substantial than the humanity of its citizens, the drift toward government by divine right gathers momentum.
— Liane Norman (1937- ), American educator
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
— Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), English poet, essayist
Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. Americans are supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.
— Judith Rossner (1935-2005), author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar
If there were no falsehoods in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.
– Walter Savage Langor (1775-1864), English writer
I know war as few men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
— Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), American general
Film is not part of the real world. This is why people will have sex on film, commit suicide on film, die of some wasting disease on film, commit murder on film. They’re adding material to the public dream. There’s a sense in which film is independent of the filmmaker, independent of the people who appear.
— Don DeLillo (1936- ), American writer
There are two secrets of life that nobody tells you: screwing and dying. What they tell you about is love and the hereafter. But it is screwing and dying that you have to deal with.
— Walker Percy (1916-1990) American Southern writer
When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health. If everything is simply jake, then you’re frightened of death.
— J.P. Donleavy (1926- ), Irish American writer
As entropy increases, energy hemorrhages. Language is affected. Words become mere incantation. When that happens, the end is near, and the cold.
— Gore Vidal
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“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.”
— Anna Sewell (1820-1878), Quaker, author of Black Beauty
