3 December 2020 Chris Hayes I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
3 December 2020 Richard Bach If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours if they don’t they never were.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
3 December 2020 Georges Bernanos The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
3 December 2020 Eric Alterman If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it’s hard. Invest in the spirit.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
3 December 2020 Buffalo Bill With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
3 December 2020 William Glasser To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
3 December 2020 Ron Chernow Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
3 December 2020 John Conyers In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
3 December 2020 John Cusack If people are constantly reading about you, and you’re overexposed, they’ve got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it’s not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.
3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
3 December 2020 David Frost Don’t aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
