Dagobert D. Runes Quotes & Sayings

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think. — Dagobert D. Runes

Cover the earth, before it covers you. — Dagobert D. Runes

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men? — Dagobert D. Runes

Fate is what Heaven imparts. — Dagobert D. Runes

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since. — Dagobert D. Runes

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality. — Dagobert D. Runes

Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches ... The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas. — Dagobert D. Runes

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot.
It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose. — Dagobert D. Runes

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically. — Dagobert D. Runes

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar. — Dagobert D. Runes

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated. — Dagobert D. Runes

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind. — Dagobert D. Runes

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation. — Dagobert D. Runes

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay. — Dagobert D. Runes

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age. — Dagobert D. Runes

The best grammarian still can't write a verse. — Dagobert D. Runes

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love. — Dagobert D. Runes

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper. — Dagobert D. Runes

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love. — Dagobert D. Runes

Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope. — Dagobert D. Runes

Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it. — Dagobert D. Runes

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker. — Dagobert D. Runes

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil. — Dagobert D. Runes

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope. — Dagobert D. Runes

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord. — Dagobert D. Runes

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads. — Dagobert D. Runes