Quotes from Crash Proof (2006)
“The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion”
Amory B. Lovins (1947) American physicist
[This much I know: Amory Lovins, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/23/ethicalliving.lifeandhealth4, The Guardian, 2008-11-20]
“What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Hester Thrale (1741–1821) Welsh author and salon-holder
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (1893)
Context: Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. And unless there is equality (and by equality I mean equal chances for every one to make the most of himself) unless, I say, these equal chances exist, freedom, either of thought, speech, or action, is equally a mockery.
“Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse…”
XX. 18 (tr. Robert Fagles).
: Bear up, my soul, a little longer yet;
A little longer to thy purpose cling!
Source: Odyssey (c. 725 BC), P. S. Worsley's translation:
“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (15 July 1957).
“Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
