The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic.

If you stop telling people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it out while they're alive.

Terry Pratchett

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Walter Lippmann

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room

Blaise Pascal

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

Voltaire

Watching my sister glowing I wonder why, if the sun is so warm, it doesn't dry her tears. Sunlight is supposed to do that, I think, sunlight should dry all the rain.

Jillian Madoff

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Aldrich Ames

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

As palace mirror'd in the stream, as vapour mingled with the skies, So weaves the brain of mortal man the tangled web of Truth and Lies.

Richard Francis Burton

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

Source Unknown

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Staness Jonekos

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

Charles Baxter