Literature Quotes - Page 11

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Wars are made to make debt.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

All literature is protest.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.