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“... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.”
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“The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.”
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“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.”
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“No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.”
Source : William H. Seward's retort to Stephen A. Douglas on the Senate floor after the Illinois senator used an offensive slur in a speech, as quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin "Team of Rivals" (p. 163), October 25, 2005.
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“I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.”
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“The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.”
Source : Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”
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“The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.”
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“Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.”
Source : "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.
