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“They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.”
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“Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.”
Source : John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”
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“I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.”
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“For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.”
Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons
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“After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.”
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“Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.”
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“Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.”
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“I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.”
