"A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory"

-- John Steinbeck

#Past Quotes #Greatness Quotes #People Quotes

“All pity is self-pity.”
“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.”
“I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.”
“A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.”
“... the absence of theistic belief.”

Source : "A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1948.
“If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.”
“A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.”
“I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.”

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