We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Eric Burdon

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Mark Twain

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Maximilien Robespierre

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Harvey Weinstein

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

William Feather

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Beca Lewis

Os deuses morrem. E, quando morrem mesmo, são esquecidos e ninguém os chora. As ideias são mais difíceis de matar do que as pessoas, mas, no fim, é possível matá-las.

Neil Gaiman

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Benjamin Disraeli