Arthur Schlesinger Jr Famous Quotes
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives."
History is full of surprises.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr Quotations
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without Principle
Henry David Thoreau
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
Romanian Proverb
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Ezra Pound
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
Henri CartierBresson
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
Ellen DeGeneres
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx