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All Quotes Collection
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
35
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
56
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
49
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
68
"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
55
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
42
"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."
33
"Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War."
41
"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."
63
"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."
42
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
51
"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."
43
"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath."
71
"The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."
34
"This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims."
36
"But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial."
35
"Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish."
27
"A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests."
32
"Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt."
29
"There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend."
24
"Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet."
27
"I'm a machine man, and I head a machine."
25
"There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action."
28
"There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life."
26
"Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce."
22
"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds."
19
"I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world."
20
"When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master."
19
"Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where."
21
"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
48
"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
50
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
66
"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."
46
"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
48
"We come to beginnings only at the end."
52
"The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting."
32
"Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's."
41
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