J.F.C. Fuller

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

Isabel Paterson

“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

Asger Jorn

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

William Howard Taft

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

Ernest Bramah

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

Otto Hahn

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

Revilo P. Oliver

“If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can only be ended by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are perfectly warless worlds”. –Revilo P. Oliver

Henry Steele Commager

“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

Meir Kahane

“One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent”. –Meir Kahane

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Phil Ochs

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

Elizabeth Gaskell

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues”. –Elizabeth Gaskell

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Stefan Zweig

“The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them”. –Stefan Zweig

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Gregor Strasser

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril”. –Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Sholem Aleichem

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”. –Sholem Aleichem

George Saintsbury

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it”. –George Saintsbury

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman

Nicolas Chamfort

“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal”. –Nicolas Chamfort

Learned Hand

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

Marcel Duchamp

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Eça de Queiroz

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

James Allen

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

Charlton Ogburn

“Circumstances are seldom right… You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments”. –Charlton Ogburn

Honoré Mirabeau

“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses”. –Honoré Mirabeau

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these”. –Paul Harvey

Susan B. Anthony

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South”. –Susan B. Anthony

Vernon Richards

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

Maxim Gorky

“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man — Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?” –Maxim Gorky

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Robert Capa

“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”. –Robert Capa

Oliver Herford

“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Warren G. Harding

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

Jack London

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

Vyacheslav Molotov

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

Pierre Trudeau

“We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. –Pierre Trudeau

Thomas Francis Meagher

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

James Larkin

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

Goldwin Smith

“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party”. –Goldwin Smith

William F. Buckley

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”. –William F. Buckley

Osbert Sitwell

“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space”. –Osbert Sitwell

Samuel Smiles

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform”. –Samuel Smiles

Peter Jennings

“This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this, and all jobs in journalism, have believed that”. –Peter Jennings

Jesse Helms

“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they Slants, Beaners, or Niggers”. –Jesse Helms

Edward R. Murrow

“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man”. –Edward R. Murrow

Kurt Vonnegut

“Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima”. –Kurt Vonnegut

David Grayson

“Looking back, I have this to regret; that too often when I loved, I did not say so”. –David Grayson

Ken Kesey

“He who marches out of line hears another drum”. –Ken Kesey

Karl Kraus

“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost”. –Karl Kraus

John Steinbeck

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. –John Steinbeck

H.G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

Edward Heath

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

George Orwell

“Between them, these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war”. –George Orwell

G.K. Chesterton

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance”. –G.K. Chesterton

Albert Meltzer

“Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated”. –Albert Meltzer

Ian Fleming

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

Lewis Hine

“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph”. –Lewis Hine

Holbrook Jackson

“Patience has its limits; take it too far and it’s cowardice”. –Holbrook Jackson

David Brinkley

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians”. –David Brinkley

Hunter S. Thompson

“I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling”. –Hunter S. Thompson

Norman Mailer

“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

Rudyard Kipling

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die”. –Rudyard Kipling

Hector Berlioz

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”. –Hector Berlioz

Joseph Goebbels

“Our starting point is not the individual. We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or cloth the naked. Our objectives are different; we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world”. –Joseph Goebbels

Georges Clemenceau

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration, without the usual interval of civilization”. –Georges Clemenceau

Walter Cronkite

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of the story”. –Walter Cronkite