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 | "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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| "A free society is a place where it"s safe to be unpopular." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "A diplomat"s life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol
and alcohol." | |
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Found in the topic Diploma.
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| "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total
conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny
universal." | |
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Found in the topic Communism.
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| "Of Eleanor Roosevelt: She would rather light a candle than curse the
darkness." | |
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Found in the topic Epitaphs.
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| "Man is a strange animal, he doesn"t like to read the handwriting on
the wall until his back is up against it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most
part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the
knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions ?
a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories,
failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love ? the human experiences and
emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a
little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "Flattery is all right ? if you don"t inhale." | |
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Found in the topic Flattery.
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| "He who slings mud generally loses ground." | |
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Found in the topic Mud.
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| "Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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| "A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood
tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation." | |
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Found in the topic Conservation.
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| "Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard." | |
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Found in the topic Prejudice.
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| "I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the
world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the
entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a
parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often
limited by national horizons." | |
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Found in the topic Astrology.
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| "A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an
open mouth." | |
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Found in the topic Politics.
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| "Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely." | |
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Found in the topic Electricity.
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| "It is often easier to fight for one?s principles than to live up to
them." | |
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Found in the topic Morality.
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| "The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the
end." | |
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Found in the topic End.
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| "The world is now too small for anything but "the truth" and too
terrible for anything but "brotherhood."" | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Mr.
Stevenson "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson
called back "That"s not enough, madam, we need a majority!"" | |
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Found in the topic Campaign.
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| "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often
becomes the height of wisdom in another." | |
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Found in the topic Generation.
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