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«Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom»
Author: Bernard De Voto | About: Pessimism | Keywords: nerves, pessimism, The name
«Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen»
«More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.»
«My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.»
«Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.»
«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
«It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes»
«Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.»
«I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»

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