There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Bertrand Russell

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Will Durant

This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

Herbert Marcuse

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

Stephen Colbert

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Yiddish Proverb

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Judith Martin

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Charles Montesquieu

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Jerry Stiller

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

Rosa Luxemburg

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin