You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Francis H. Bradley

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Walter Bagehot

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Stephen King

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Gerald Jampolsky

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Henry David Thoreau

Once upon a timeof all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eveold Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

Charles Dickens

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling

Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death He is going to pay his debt to society, but: They are going to cut off his head. It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

Albert Camus