"Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege."

-- Leon Trotsky

#Stupid Quotes #Mcdonalds Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.”
“I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.”
“It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.”
“If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.”
“However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.”
“We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”
“Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?”
“The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.”

Source : Speech in Limehouse, East London, on July 30, 1909. The Times, p. 9, July 31, 1909.

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