Berelson Memo Quotes & Sayings

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. — Hermann Goring

What I'm trying to say is this: there are things in this world that are better left as unknowns — Haruki Murakami

My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. — Samuel Johnson

No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take them out on others. So let's focus on how to get your hat back. — Valerie Ormond

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed. — Samuel Richardson

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. — Charles Jencks

After centuries of marginalization and neglect, we need to cast our own movements, projects, and ideas as a battle for relevancy in the face of historical manipulation, exploitation, and oppression. We need to fight, tooth and nail, for equity in all areas of social life. One point to make clear, ethnic and racial minorities are not looking for scraps or a handout from the old paternalistic system but an equitable, stable, and leveled playing field. — Martin Guevara Urbina

Who gives a damn about their reputation? Oh, that would be me. — A Meredith Walters

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community. — Hilaire Belloc

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave. — Sharon Van Etten

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind? — A. Ashley Straker