Edmund A. Opitz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

  • Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

  • There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  • In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

  • In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  • Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

  • I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  • The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

  • Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.