"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Thinking Quotes #Critics Quotes #Ask Me Quotes

“An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.”
“Without game, men prey on each other.”
“I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.”
“In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible. When they have blinded the eyes of your mind-when they have embittered the sweet waters of the light which shines from the word of God-then, and not till then has American slavery done its perfect work.”
“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”
“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”
“People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.”

Source : Joseph Butler (1816). “The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.6

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