
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916)
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
"About Music Criticism" (1909), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 196
1900s
“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”
Source: Eating Animals
[Ghatak, Ritwik, Cinema and I, 1987, Ritwik Memorial Trust, 65]
“where some god pissed a rain of
reason to make things grow
only to die”
“We cannot make good news out of bad practice.”
Response as director of the U.S. Information Agency to Senate critics who wanted him to ignore racial problems to promote a better public image abroad. As quoted in Life (7 May 1965)