David Low famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
-- David Low

#Views #Feelings #Belief
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
-- David Low

#Men #Thinking #Giving
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
-- David Low

#Two #Cartoon #Three
I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.
-- David Low

#War #Mets
I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.
-- David Low

#War #Silly #Games

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

David Low famous quotes

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