Notable Quotes
The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent.
It isn’t exactly a good index of what’s happening.
— Charles Krauthammer
“I swing big with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”
— Babe Ruth
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,
and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
— Abigail Adams
“The legions of well-intentioned but smug, educated elites have agreed in advance to reject thousands of years of i
nherited wisdom, values, habit, custom, and insight
and replace this heritage with their official Utopian vision of the perfect society.”
— William Gairdner
“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need.
The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it.
Now we could not live without it.”
— Louis I Kahn
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
— Aristotle
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.”
— G.K. Chesterton
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
— Cicero
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent,
scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country
– and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
— Charles Krauthammer