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All Quotes Collection
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
77
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
49
"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader."
57
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."
44
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
55
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
50
"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."
Time,
54
"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
39
"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
48
"Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people."
46
"There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure."
65
"The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible."
51
"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
51
"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
54
"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
53
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."
50
"Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others."
53
"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."
45
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
41
"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach."
26
"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
35
"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."
34
"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
27
"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
30
"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
27
"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
28
"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."
38
"Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."
35
"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."
37
"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."
36
"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."
28
"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
49
"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
62
"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."
46
"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."
35
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