Doe Quotes - Page 67

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to politics; they add new ingredients to the collective process.

The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt; If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. 'Government money,' of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.