There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Industry need not wish.

There is no gambling like politics.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.