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- Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference,…
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them…
- Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything…
- You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
- Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything…
- You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the…
- Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made…
- A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather…
- He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
- When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god,…
- It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human…
- All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.
- Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers…
- Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but…
- When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president…
- The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a…
- I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because…
- There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
- Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
- Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide