William Delbert Gann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  • If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

  • One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

  • I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  • The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  • Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  • It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  • I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  • Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

  • The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.