Gildersleeve Radio Quotes & Sayings

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist ... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience. — Allan Bloom

EM Forster never gets any further than warming the tea pot ... Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. — Katherine Mansfield

I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind. — Howard Thurman

Started from the chair hop now we here. — Bill Gates

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. — Bell Hooks

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. — Tom Allen

When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst — Jeremy Hammond

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history. — Otto Von Bismarck

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good. — Charlie Sheen

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it. — John M. Perkins

Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other. — James S.A. Corey