Postavioglas Quotes & Sayings

To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all. — Rubin Carter

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators. — Richard Fortey

Love will always be the most powerful force. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers! — Jack Kornfield

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. — Immanuel Kant

You don't ask questions of an attic — Barbara Kingsolver

Vice is basically the love of failure. — Elfriede Jelinek

Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime. But — Robert Penn Warren

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work. — Gillian Anderson

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James