Nicolae Steinhardt Quotes & Sayings

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard. — Michael Redd

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev

From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from education, and were, at first, invented, and afterwards encouraged ... in order to render men tractable, and subdue their natural ferocity and selfishness, which incapacitated them for society. — David Hume

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another. — Gary Gygax

I rebel against authority, especially my own. — Christy Leigh Stewart

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. — Boyd K. Packer

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country. — Eike Batista

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word. — Ariel Sharon

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all. — Joan D. Chittister

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. — Rutger Hauer

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative. — Martin Walser