Rabbi Alan Berkowitz Quotes & Sayings

Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they abate the active powers of men; depress courage, invention, and genius; and produce a universal lethary in the people. — David Hume

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out. — Candace Bushnell

If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat. — Dontrelle Willis

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties. — Louis D. Brandeis

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. — William James

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there. — Christopher Lee

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? — Virginia Woolf

When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous. — Sona Charaipotra

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. — Irwin Shaw

Youth is beautiful. — Indira Varma

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. — Mary Quant

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. — Bhagat Singh

One of the first signs of a repressive regime is the capture of the education systems of their respective countries. Whether the theocrats have taken over by force or by subterfuge (as is being attempted in the United States), they dumb down learning, crush knowledge, and then supplant it with their dogma. They then gain secure political power because the population isn't educated enough to critically examine what is really going on. — Jeffrey Selman