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All Quotes Collection
"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
43
"Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial."
94
"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
64
"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."
36
"I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas."
54
"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system."
45
"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
48
"It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World."
64
"Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls."
43
"All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty."
47
"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."
44
"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
48
"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
46
"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
65
"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."
51
"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
48
"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
109
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
17
"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
51
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
47
"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
52
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
51
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
145
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
52
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
91
"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."
48
"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."
36
"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
56
"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
72
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
16
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
72
"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
46
"Order is a great person's need and their true well being."
49
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
46
"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
57
"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
48
"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."
156
"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."
51
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
14
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
56
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
45
"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
50
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
48
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