Demeans Means Quotes & Sayings

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable" ... In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. — George Orwell

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me. — Stanislaw Ulam

Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."' — William Safire

If there is a future, it will be Green. — Petra Kelly

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. — Norman Mailer

I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that. — Courtney Thorne-Smith