Quotes

Jane Roberts photo

“The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 24, Page 188
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Robert LeFevre photo

“An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do.”

Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman

As quoted in "What Is Anarchy?" By Butler Shaffer, Lewrockwell.com (Jan. 13, 2004)

“The original of morals lies with the thought that ‘the community is more valuable than the individual”

John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author

Menschliches 2.1.89
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 80, note

Marcus Annaeus Seneca photo

“Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.”
Quædam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (-54–39 BC) Roman scholar

Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Norman T. Pratt Seneca's Drama (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983) p. 140
Controversiae

Warren Farrell photo

“Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 214.

L. Ron Hubbard photo

“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).

Maria Edgeworth photo

“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”

Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) Irish writer

"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 213.

Jim Henson photo

“I'm sure Kermit will stay young a lot longer than I will.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

Henry James photo

“There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

Ilana Mercer photo

“Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

“Just In From Mainstream: Barack Is As Thick As A Brick”, http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=667 WorldNetDaily.com, August 24, 2012.
2010s, 2012

“The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.”

Bernard Crick (1929–2008) British political theorist and democratic socialist

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 159.

Barbara W. Tuchman photo

“Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.”

Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
A Distant Mirror (1978)

John Denham photo

“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
Attempt translation.”

John Denham (1615–1669) English poet and courtier

To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 9.

Philip E. Tetlock photo

“How you think matters more than what you think.”

Philip E. Tetlock (1954) American political science writer

Philip Tetlock, quoted in: Stewart Brand (2010). Whole Earth Discipline. p. 124

P. L. Deshpande photo

“In this world, "who is saying", is more important than "what is being said"!”

P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist

Alternate translation: In this world, who you are is more important than what you are saying.
From his various literature
Source: Asa mi Asami

“France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.”

Mark Riebling (1963) American writer

Churchill’s Finest Hour (2009)

Franz Kafka photo
Anthony de Mello photo

“One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 73

Christopher Marlowe photo

“I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

Lust's Dominion (c. 1600), Act iii. scene 4. Compare: "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted", William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act iii. scene 2.
Misattributed