"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naÃ¯ve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Country Quotes #Hate Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“I'm usually a no-filter kind of cat. My frown comes really naturally and doesn't need anything else to keep it real.”

Source : "Grumpy Cat's Guide to Having the Worst Christmas Ever". Interview with Brinton Parker, www.popsugar.com. November 26, 2014.
“Art is manipulation without intervention.”
“Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.”

Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.
“Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.”
“I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.”
“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.”

Source : Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition
“Every man is a poet when he is in love.”
“As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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