Quotes
The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.
Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
Elaine M. Ward
The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.
If you come to New York to buy crack, bring carfare and be prepared to take the bus back.
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent.
You see here before you the spectacle of a Plantagenet, who hath been carried from the nursery to the sanctuary; from the sanctuary to the direful prison; from the prison to the hand of the cruel tormentor; and from that hand to the wide wilderness, as I may truly call it, for so the world hath been to me.
High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears, to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from place to place.
But far be it from us to intend their hurt or damage, or to make war upon them, otherwise than to deliver ourselves and them from tyranny and oppression.
The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
On the road, I liked to be booed, I really did. Because if they boo you on the road, it's either because you're a sorehead or because you're hurting them.
Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.
If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.