"I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril."

-- James A. Michener

#Religious Quotes #Men Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists”
“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”
“One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.”
“The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.”
“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”
“It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.”
“It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.”
“Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

Source : "No Sense Of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings" by Robert Shogan, (p. xiii), 2009.

You may also like:

Dean Koontz
Author
Edward Rutherfurd
Writer
Edward Said
Professor
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Herman Wouk
Author
John Jakes
Writer
Leon Uris
Novelist
Oscar Hammerstein II
Librettist
Steve Berry
Author