Edward C Banfield Famous Quotes
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."
Edward C Banfield Quotations
Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.
J Carl Cook
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.
Epicurus
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Carl Weick
There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
Mother Theresa
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
"If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success."
John Van de Kamp
Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James R Lowell
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."
Samuel Johnson