Himmelfarb Gertrude Quotes & Sayings

Use your God given time wisely, don't waste it in paltry things. — Euginia Herlihy

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ... — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first. — Dan Abnett

Another great start to a new fantastic series — Lisa Renee Jones

How are you supposed to feel if you are forced to do what you would have done anyway? — Dennis E. Taylor

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself; never forget to be compassionate to yourself. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me. — David Haye

The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Politics is a potent way to empower women. — Preneet Kaur

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ... — Mary Astor

For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers. — Tia Mowry

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.' — John Joseph Adams

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom. — Peace Pilgrim

In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you. — Rebecca Solnit

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian — Katsura Hoshino