Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Frank Moore Colby

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Abraham Maslow

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

George Eliot

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

Anne Boyd

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.

Jada Pinkett Smith

You see, you all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn. I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish. You know the Congress is a perfect example, and created to be a perfect example.http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/acheson.htm

Dean Acheson, interview with The

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

William Gurnall

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Gil Atkinson

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

Martin Luther King Jr.