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Quotations of the Day: July 2007
July 31, 2007
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. —Milton Friedman
July 30, 2007
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below. —John Dryden
July 29, 2007
a man / thinks he amounts / to a great deal / but to a / flea or a / mosquito a / human being is / merely something / good to eat —Don Marquis
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. —Emma Goldman
July 26, 2007
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. —Pearl S. Buck
July 25, 2007
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. —George Gordon Noel Byron
July 24, 2007
Would [a Congress where women in all their diversity were represented] consent to the perverted sense of priorities that has dominated our government for decades, where billions have been appropriated for war while our human needs as a people have been neglected? —Bella Abzug
July 23, 2007
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. —Haile Selassie
July 22, 2007
To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. —Abraham Lincoln
July 21, 2007
His thoughts, delivered to me / From the white coverlet and pillow, / I see now, were inheritances— / Delicate riders of the storm. —Hart Crane
July 20, 2007
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. —Karl Kraus
July 19, 2007
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. —George McGovern
And hence one master-passion in the breast, / Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest. —Alexander Pope
July 15, 2007
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. —Proverbs 25:11
July 14, 2007
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the “social worker”-judge. —Michel Foucault
July 13, 2007
The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated. —Sidney Webb
July 12, 2007
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. —Bill Cosby
July 11, 2007
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. —E. B. White
July 10, 2007
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. —Mary McLeod Bethune
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor’s most affluent ulcer case. —Nelson A. Rockefeller
July 7, 2007
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. —David McCullough
July 6, 2007
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. —Herman Melville
July 5, 2007
[The United Nations] is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn’t created to take you to heaven. —Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
July 4, 2007
Every constitution…, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. —Thomas Jefferson
July 3, 2007
It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. —Tom Stoppard
July 2, 2007
Above all we forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. —Hermann Hesse
July 1, 2007
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. —George Sand
