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| Quotations of the Day: March 2003 |
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March 31, 2003
The rebel, unlike the revolutionary, does not attempt to undermine the social order as a whole. The rebel attacks the tyrant; the revolutionary attacks tyranny.
—Octavio Paz
March 30, 2003
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
—Antonin Artaud
March 29, 2003
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
—Karl Kraus
March 28, 2003
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.
—Aristide Briand
March 27, 2003
I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn’t like is being shown as a silly ass.
—David Low
March 26, 2003
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the transpolitical is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
—Jean Baudrillard
March 25, 2003
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg
March 24, 2003
I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.
—W.H. Auden
March 23, 2003
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
—Patrick Henry
March 22, 2003
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
—Stephen Decatur
March 21, 2003
Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
—Jimmy Carter
March 20, 2003
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
—Colin Powell
March 19, 2003
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
—Philip Roth
March 18, 2003
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
—John Updike
March 17, 2003
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
—Charles Haughey
March 16, 2003
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
—Daniel Patrick Moynihan
March 15, 2003
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.
—Spiro T. Agnew
March 14, 2003
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
—Albert Einstein
March 13, 2003
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
—George Bernard Shaw
March 12, 2003
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
—Edward Albee
March 11, 2003
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility…. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
—Vannevar Bush
March 10, 2003
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.
—Friedrich von Schlegel
March 9, 2003
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
—Virginia Woolf
March 8, 2003
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
—William Howard Taft
March 7, 2003
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
—Theodore Roosevelt
March 6, 2003
And I smiled to think God’s greatness flowed around our incompleteness, / Round our restlessness His rest.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
March 5, 2003
Well, there’s no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
—Lady Augusta Gregory
March 4, 2003
If that’s how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what’s left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
—Barbara Ehrenreich
March 3, 2003
He thought of certain human hearts, their climb / Through violence into exquisite disciplines / Of which, as it now appeared, they all expired.
—James Merrill
March 2, 2003
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization … go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
March 1, 2003
You’d better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we’re lost souls on the ghost ship forever.
—Dan Rather
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