Quotations Set 34

1. Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-1834)

2. The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much. - Germain G. Glien

3. True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. - Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915-)

4. My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. - Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

5. The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )

6. It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. - Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)

7. Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

8. Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

9. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. - Louis L'Amour, novelist (1908-1988)

10. Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. - Stephen King, novelist (1947- )

11. People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. - Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

12. I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

13. Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)

14. Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything - anything - be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in. - Sam Harris, author (1967- )

15. Information is the currency of democracy. - Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

16. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (1900-1980)

17. He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)

18. Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. - Shakti Gawain, teacher and author (1948- )

19. If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. - Barry Jones, Australian politician, author (1932- )

20. Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. - Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862)

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