Christopher Caldwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.
-- Christopher Caldwell

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One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
-- Christopher Caldwell

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Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
-- Christopher Caldwell

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The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.
-- Christopher Caldwell

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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Christopher Caldwell famous quotes

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