Herb Myerson Quotes & Sayings

Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses. — Leo Tolstoy

Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise — Paul McCartney

There is an urge to believe that getting something you want will make you happy. The secret is to be happy without wanting anything. Is that so hard? — Chloe Thurlow

Nonhumanity is a dangerous label. If someone is nonhuman, they have no rights, Andrea. No protection. — Ilona Andrews

I wanted to prove myself worthy of the girl I loved. I wanted to be able to return and lay not only my heart, but the world, at her feet. — Teresa Medeiros

Their religion is of the strictest sort, Stephen. Almost everything is forbidden to them except carpets." Stephen watched them as they went mournfully about the market, these men whose mouths were perpetually closed lest they spoke some forbidden word, whose eyes were perpetually averted from forbidden sights, whose hands refrained at every moment from some forbidden act. It seemed to him that they did little more than half-exist. They might as well have been dreams or ghosts. In the silent town and the silent countryside only the hot wind seemed to have any real substance. Stephen felt he would not be surprized if one day the wind blew the town and its inhabitants entirely away. — Susanna Clarke

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll