George Sewell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
-- George Sewell

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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
-- George Sewell

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Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
-- George Sewell

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preÃ«mptive paranoia.
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.
Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.
Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

George Sewell famous quotes

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