"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Fear Quotes #Formidable Quotes

“Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.”
“I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?”
“A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.”
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.”
“We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.”

Source : "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.
“I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.”

Source : "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.
“Make a destination of the greater truth.”

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