Gordon Tietjens Quotes & Sayings

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. — Ronald Reagan

Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom. — Lucy H. Pearce

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. — Gottfried Leibniz

Keep it hidden, keep it safe. — Rachel A. Marks

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth. — J.G. Ballard

I'll tell Sean you said he was hot' ... 'I said he was a rat bastard with the potential to be hot! — Victoria Michaels

The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately. — Robert Warshow

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth. — Harold Holzer

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. — Sonia Sotomayor