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Quotations of the Day: October 2004
October 31, 2004
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating. —Alan Paton
October 30, 2004
VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. —Ambrose Bierce
October 29, 2004
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. —Maureen Dowd
October 28, 2004
How shall we avert the dire calamities with which we are threatened? The answer comes from the graves of our fathers: By the frequent election of new men. —Jeremiah S. Black
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world … that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. —François Mitterrand
October 25, 2004
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. —Aldous Huxley
October 24, 2004
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. —Belva Lockwood
October 23, 2004
We’re more effective than birth control pills. —Johnny Carson
October 22, 2004
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. —Eugène Ionesco
October 21, 2004
Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth, / And constancy live in realms above; / And life is thorny, and youth is vain, / And to be wroth with one we love / Doth work like madness in the brain. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 20, 2004
The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. —Arthur Rimbaud
October 19, 2004
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, / Say that health and wealth have missed me, / Say I’m growing old, but add, / Jenny kissed me. —Leigh Hunt
October 18, 2004
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have [to] bare the secrets of government and inform the people. —Hugo L. Black
October 17, 2004
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult. —Arthur Miller
October 16, 2004
This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody. —Rita Mae Brown
October 15, 2004
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. —Friedrich Nietzsche
October 14, 2004
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. —Dwight D. Eisenhower
October 13, 2004
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America’s] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. —John Quincy Adams
October 12, 2004
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them—the desire to do right—is precisely the same. —Robert E. Lee
October 11, 2004
Arguments too stale to mention / ’Gainst American invention / Most of all the mass production / Destined to prove our destruction. —Robert Frost
October 10, 2004
The system … is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. —Alexander Hamilton
October 9, 2004
A debate before 70 million people is in fact a distorting glass, a fun-house mirror in which wrinkles look like canyons and hesitation like an attack of amnesia. —Peter Goldman
October 8, 2004
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. —John Hay
October 7, 2004
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. —Desmond Tutu
October 6, 2004
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. —Le Corbusier
October 5, 2004
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. —Denis Diderot
October 4, 2004
Democracy and Republicanism in their best partisan utterances alike declare for human rights. Jefferson, the father of Democracy, Lincoln, the embodiment of Republicanism, and the Divine author of the religion on which true civilization rests, all proclaim the equal rights of all men. —Rutherford B. Hayes
October 3, 2004
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me—and I think for all of us—not only our own hope, but America’s everlasting, living dream. —Thomas Wolfe
October 2, 2004
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. —Eleanor Roosevelt
October 1, 2004
[To restrict political spending] is much like allowing a speaker in a public hall to express his views while denying him the use of an amplifying system. —William H. Rehnquist
