Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.
ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.
I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
