"The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world."

-- Harry S. Truman

#War Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #World Quotes

“If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.”
“Praise be Allah and prayers and peace upon Mohammed.”
“I'm a little different from all those conservation types.”
“Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.”

Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.
“In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.”
“Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.”
“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.”
“I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.”

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