Parsonnet Auditorium Quotes & Sayings

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other. — Vincent Massey

Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job. — Tony Judt

He who knows more is more responsible. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

This is the first significant mention of an idea that will acquire an almost unbearable, next to mindless authority in European writing: the theme of Europe teaching the Orient the meaning of liberty, which is an idea that Chateaubriand and everyone after him believed that Orientals, and especially Muslims, knew nothing about. Of liberty, they know nothing; of propriety, they have none: force is their God. When they go for long periods without seeing conquerors who do heavenly justice, they have the air of soldiers without a leader, citizens without legislators, and a family without a father.83 — Edward Said

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. — Oliver Goldsmith

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from. — Peter Shepherd