Today Quotes
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotionsAlexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.Katharn Hepburn
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.H. L. Mencken
Necessity makes even the timid brave.Sallust, Roman historian and politician (c. 86-c. 35 B.C.)
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931-)
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.Baruch Spinoza
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.George Orwell, 1984