Quotations Set 05

1. All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. - attributed to Alexandre Dumas, French author (1824-1895)

2. Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene, English writer (1904-1991)

3. Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as occasionally receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould, American writer (1879-1944)

4. In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk, activist and writer

5. There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. - Dame Rebecca West, Irish-born novelist (1892-1983)

6. I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai E. Stevenson, American statesman (1900-1965)

7. Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist (1815-1902)

8. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. - John Arbuthnot, writer and physician (1667-1735)

9. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. - John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704)

10. You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. - Baltasar Gracian, Spanish philosopher (1601-1658)

11. People say law but they mean wealth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and philosopher (1803-1882)

12. The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. - Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920- )

13. We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out. - Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer-author (1858-1933)

14. As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. - William O. Douglas, judge (1898-1980)

15. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair, novelist and reformer (1878-1968)

16. History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. - Horace Walpole, English author (1717-1797)

17. What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. - Anonymous

18. We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. - Robert M. Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)

19. Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. - Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

20. A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours. - William Ralph Inge, English religious leader and author (1860-1954)

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