The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.