Showing posts with label Thomas Szasz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Szasz. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria

I object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary; the
evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The ability to delude yourself may
be an important survival tool."
- Jane Wagner

"Memory is more indelible than ink."
- Anita Loos

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself,
it is time for others to laugh at him."
- Thomas Szasz


"I don't deserve this award, but I have
arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny

"In America, through pressure of conformity, there
is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
- Peter Ustinov

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Quotes

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage
or a judge's chamber believes in an
unprejudiced point of view."
- Lillian Hellman

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget; the wise
forgive but do not forget."
- Thomas Szasz


"Americans detest all lies except lies
spoken in public or printed lies."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"You create your opportunities
by asking for them."
- Shakti Gawain

"In preparing for battle I have
always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,
place it in the navel of a firefly and still
have room enough for three caraway seeds and
a producer's heart."
- Fred Allen