"If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people."

-- Charles Trevelyan

#Selfish Quotes #Character Quotes #Government Quotes

“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4”, p.393, Random House
“One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.”
“to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.”
“Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.”
“Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.”
“It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.”
“Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.”

Source : Speech in Amsterdam on March 12, 1941. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 468, 1997.

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