A Man Without a Country (2005)
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 26
“It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.”
"As Eighty," from Bee Time Vine (1953, Yale University Press); written in 1923
Source: "Why Are They Laughing In Those Cages?", in Travels in Hyperreality : Essays (1986), Ch. III : The Gods of the Underworld, p. 122
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.
Discussion session with students at Union College, Oct 16 1968, reproduced in John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose, ed. Donald Pizer
“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and never acceptable.”
Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988
“Our enemies have always made the same mistake.”
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Context: Our enemies have always made the same mistake. In my lifetime—in depression and in war—they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again. For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say "Farewell." Is a new world coming? We welcome it—and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-12
00:25:43
Beck: African-Americans "don't own Martin Luther King"
2010-07-12
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007120051
2010s, 2010
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”
Source: Listen, Little Man!
