"To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times."

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Henri Frederic Amiel

#Respect Quotes #Men Quotes

“I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.”
“The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.”
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed, that instances of it are but too infrequent and flagrant both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires, is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.”
“You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?”

Source : "Nostalgic night for Academy Awards". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2012.
“Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.”

Source : Idiot's Delight act 2, sc. 2 (1936)
“Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.”
“When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became an organization in which nations would at least keep talking instead of shooting. Soon it was discovered ... that words were as deadly as any weapon, and when these words had a number of interpretations they could and did lead to conflict.”

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