Niall MacDermot Famous Quotes
"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms."
Niall MacDermot Quotations
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
Charles Horton Cooley
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
Franklin P Adams
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Roosevelt Eleanor
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H L Mencken
"If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain."
Plato
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
American Indian Proverb
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire