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Quotations of the Day: June 2007
June 30, 2007
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny. —Jacques Maritain
June 29, 2007
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness—each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked—each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. —Herbert Butterfield
June 28, 2007
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. —Eric Ambler
June 27, 2007
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one. —H. Ross Perot
Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so. —Blaise Pascal
June 18, 2007
Had I but serv’d my God with half the zeal / I serv’d my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies. —William Shakespeare
June 17, 2007
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. —John Wesley
June 16, 2007
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it. —Washington Irving
June 15, 2007
The roots of the grass strain, / Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting— / And suddenly, and all at once, the rain! —Archibald MacLeish
June 14, 2007
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. —Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 13, 2007
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class…. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says “there is no wisdom without leisure.” —W. B. Yeats
June 12, 2007
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world. —John Winthrop
June 11, 2007
And he that gives us in these days / New Lords may give us new laws. —George Wither
June 10, 2007
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. —Reinhold Niebuhr
June 9, 2007
Good authors, too, who once knew better words / Now only use four-letter words / Writing prose … / Anything goes. —Cole Porter
June 8, 2007
Nothing to do but work, / Nothing to eat but food. —Ben King
June 7, 2007
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. —Elizabeth Bowen
June 6, 2007
God of the hidden purpose, / Let our embarking be / The prayer of proud men asking / Not to be safe, but free. —Henry Morton Robinson
June 5, 2007
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. —Eric Hoffer
June 4, 2007
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. —George III
June 3, 2007
[There is] an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. —Saul Bellow
June 2, 2007
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. —Marquis de Sade
June 1, 2007
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave / When they think that their children are naive. —Ogden Nash
