Buddhadeb Dasgupta Quotes & Sayings

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. — Bill Frist

This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage. — Horace Annesley Vachell

It should be pointed out, however, that throughout the debate emphasis was placed on raising money only for the proper expense of government.3 None of the advocates of income taxation spoke of expanding the functions of government, and while the opposition mentioned "socialism" it seems doubtful that they had any idea of a New Deal. The American mind of the nineteenth century was incapable of comprehending paternalism, regulation, and control; it was too strongly rooted in the past for that. Even those who advocated the tax method of undermining private property were not aware of what they were doing, and would probably have stopped in their tracks if they could have foreseen the consequences of their proposal. It was not any urgency for Big Government - which they could not even have understood - that prompted them to advocate income taxation. It was simply an urgency to "soak the rich" - the very common sin of envy. — Frank Chodorov

Friendship, just like a young green plant, needs to be nurtured. — Eraldo Banovac

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good? — Greg Fitzsimmons

The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them. — Edwidge Danticat

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. — Clay Shirky

Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses - and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh - those who grave new values on new tables. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination. — Timothy Keller