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“History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.”
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“I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.”
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“I cry at the end of every book.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes than Reasonings, Hypotheses, and Deductions are; ... These are things we are sure of, so far as our Senses are not fallible; and which, in probability, have been ever since the Creation, and will remain to the End of the World, in the same Condition we now find them.”
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“If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.”
Source : "A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO". Book by Harris O. Schoenberg, 1989.
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“In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.”
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“The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.”
Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press
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“Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.”