Quotations Set 24

1. He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. - Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)

2. The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. - Chinese proverb

3. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane, writer (1871-1900)

4. I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. - Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

5. One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only the truth. - Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)

6. As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. - Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

7. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers - or both. - Elizabeth Charles, writer (1828-1896)

8. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. - Bussy-Rabutin, French soldier and writer (1618-1693)

9. The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life - the sick, the needy and the handicapped. - Hubert Horatio Humphrey, US Vice President (1911-1978)

10. Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum, Austrian-born author (1888-1960)

11. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. - From "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

12. The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life. - Adolf Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933

13. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine, American author and educator (1879-1951)

14. That man is truly good who knows his own dark places. - Beowulf

15. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley, American journalist (1890-1957)

16. ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich. - Noam Chomsky

17. Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. - Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

18. Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal (1925- )

19. What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. - Pauline Kael, American movie critic (1919-2001)

20. Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908-1993)

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