John Chancellor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.
-- John Chancellor

#People #Innovation #Liberty
Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.
-- John Chancellor

#Feel Good #Principles #Action
I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.
-- John Chancellor

#Would Be #Palestine
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.
-- John Chancellor

#Loss #President #Ears
The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.
-- John Chancellor

#Add #Information #Journalism
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
-- John Chancellor

#Character #People #Tragedy
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.
-- John Chancellor

#Anger #Pride #Envy
I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.
-- John Chancellor

#Light #Long #Atheism
The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.
-- John Chancellor

#Successful #People #Sticks

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

John Chancellor famous quotes

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