1940s Morality Quotes & Sayings

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. — Kurt Vonnegut

Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. — L.M. Montgomery

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages. — Bernie Sanders

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. — Wole Soyinka

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them "pin-up girls" and think its cute how "our boys," now that they're drafted, love to hang them in their wall lockers. And then close up all the whorehouses, every place they can, so our young men will not be contaminated. — James Jones

...real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Set your soul on fire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment. — Nicolas Gomez

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. — Patrick Fugit