splicer's Quotes

I'd vote to allow dueling to be legalized; after all, the challenged person can choose the weapons, and I'd go for cream pies at 15 feet.

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.

I do not believe that Newsweek is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but we're one of them. I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

We have to decide: are we ready to get what we pay for? If you're not going to pay for news, then you're going to get a different kind of news. Full stop.

The great privilege of the Americans does not consist in being more enlightened than other nations, but in being able to repair the faults they may commit.

No one was ever born who agreed to be a slave, who accepted it, that is slavery is a condition imposed from without. The moment I said that I realized that multitudes and multitudes of people, for various reasons of their own, enslave themselves every hour of every day to this or that doctrine, this or that delusion of safety, this or that lie. Anti-Semites, for example, are slaves to a delusion. People who hate Negros are slaves; people who love money are slaves. We live in a universe, really, of willing slaves which is what makes concepts of liberty so dangerous and concepts of freedom so dangerous.

Many adults haven't made anything in years—giving them legos or crayons would help more than reading books on creativity.

A great many people in this world believe the end justifies the means. I don't know but that I do myself. And that is the reason I never want to take the side of the prosecution, because I might harm an individual. I am sure the state will live anyhow.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.

Everyone agrees that necessary as it is to listen to the unconscious, it is not sufficient. The real work begins when the emotion or idea that sprang from the uncharted regions of the psyche is held up to the light of reason, there to be named, classified, puzzled over, and related to other emotions and ideas. It is here that craft comes into play: The writer draws on a huge repertoire of words, expressions, and images used by previous writers, selects the ones most fitting to the present task, and knows how to make up new ones when needed.

Both the preachers of an unrestricted individualism, and the preachers of an oppression which would deny to able men of business the just reward of their intuitive and business sagacity, are advocating policies that would be fraught with the greatest harm to the whole country. To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world, the spirit of democratic fair dealing. On the other hand, to attach these wrongs in that sprit of demagogy, which can see wrong only when committed by the man of wealth, and is dumb and blind in the presence of wrong committed against men of property or by men of no property, is exactly as evil as corruptly to defend the wrongdoing of men of wealth.