It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Bernadine Dohrn

Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?

Margaret Mitchell

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

George Bernard Shaw

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Clare Boothe Luce

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause.I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests; we know too many things, and, if you will, have too many advantages and facilities. Our faculty of taking an interest is dissipated and frittered away.

Eha

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Barack Obama

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Thomas Huxley

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Art Linkletter

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Kittens can happen to anyone.

Paul Gallico

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton