Dirks Fund Quotes & Sayings

Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work were being regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation ... On the whole, people did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous tyranny. On the contrary, they appeared to support it with genuine enthusiasm — William L. Shirer

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. — Randy Alcorn

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. — Oliver Goldsmith

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream — Gustave Flaubert

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music. — Tony Levin