The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries. . . I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.
We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.
I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.