"From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason."

-- Lord Acton

#People Quotes #Redemption Quotes #Appeals Quotes

“I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.”
“Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.”
“To exaggerate is to weaken.”
“Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.”

Source : Thomas Starr King (1924). “Socrates: An Oration”
“The older I get, the better I used to be.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?”
“Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.”
“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonKnight: A Novel”, p.44, WaterBrook

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