"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."

--

Source : "Building A Speech". Book by Sheldon Metcalfe, 1990.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Men Quotes #Sheep Quotes #Race Quotes

“The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.”
“Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.”
“[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.”
“The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.
“Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.”

Source : "Claymore". Manga by Norihiro Yagi, 2001-2014.
“Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people...”

Source : Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.200, Black House Publishing Ltd
“Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty, during which men . . . forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice. . . . They forgot that their rights were founded on their duties. . . . They thought it clever to be cynical, enlightened to be unbelieving, and sensible to be soft.”
“I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.”

You may also like:

Allan Nevins
Historian
Carolyn Heilbrun
Author
Charles A. Beard
Historian
Charles Van Doren
Intellectual
James Branch Cabell
Author
Joseph Wood Krutch
Writer
Lionel Trilling
Literary critic
Mark Van Doren
Poet
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist