Simon Davies famous quotes

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
-- Simon Davies

#Age #Human Nature #Intolerance

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.
-- Simon Davies

#Cutting #Sacrifice #Rights

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.