War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman
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Showing posts with label writer quotes. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Jose Bergamin Quotes
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Jose Bergamin
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
Jose Bergamin
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Jose Bergamin
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Jose Bergamin
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Jose Bergamin
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
Jose Bergamin
Jose Bergamin
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Jose Bergamin
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
Jose Bergamin
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Jose Bergamin
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Jose Bergamin
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Jose Bergamin
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
Jose Bergamin
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Roger Ascham Quotes
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Roger Ascham
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
Paddy Ashdown Quotes
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Paddy Ashdown
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown
Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
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