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“How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No!”
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“I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.”
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“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
Source : Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.
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“I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.”
Source : "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.
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“We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.”
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“Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.”
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“The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.”
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“It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.”
Source : "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. June 2002.