"Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces."

-- Sidney Hook

#Stupidity Quotes #Historical Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”

Source : Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black
“Hear from those who have gone before you.”
“I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?”

Source : "Educators debate black students' lagging test scores". www.cnn.com. October 26, 2000.
“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
“Callous greed grows pious very fast.”
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”
“It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Lone Drow: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy”, p.171, Wizards of the Coast

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