All Quotes
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It has all been very interesting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.G. K. Chesterton