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

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

William Saroyan

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing”. –William Saroyan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oliver Herford

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

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

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

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

Graham Greene

“A petty reason, perhaps, why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction”. –Graham Greene