But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

William Hazlitt

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Eric Hoffer

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Tony Blair

There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.

Lubbock, John

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Marcus Garvey

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety: other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare, Antony and

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-creatures. A man cannot love his God, and hate his brother: he cannot expect mercy, who shows none.Alexander Campbell, Editor

S. M. M'Corkle, The Sign of the

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Harry M. Collins

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle