"We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life."

-- Max Lerner

#Perfection Quotes #Political Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.”
“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.”
“Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”
“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”
“For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.”
“We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.”
“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”

You may also like:

Alan Jay Lerner
Lyricist
Charles A. Beard
Historian
Harold Laski
Economist
Julius Charles Hare
Writer
Marilyn Ferguson
Author
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Sidney Hook
Philosopher
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
Thorstein Veblen
Economist