Benjamin De Hoyos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

  • I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  • The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

  • Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  • The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

  • In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

  • Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

  • Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

  • I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

  • We are the result of the stimulus we receive.