At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.
Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).
Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.
Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
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