William Godwin Political Justice Quotes & Sayings

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him. — Amarillo Slim

The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. — Idries Shah

The later-afternoon air of our exhalations hung in brief clouds before us. The thought balloon of my own breath said, "How have I found myself here?" It was not a theological question. It was one of transportation and neurology. — Lorrie Moore

We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. — Justin Cronin

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape . — Robert Charles Wilson

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others. — Robert Jordan

There is an intemporal which works on the inside of time, which is, rather, omnitemporal. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James

we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it. — R.C. Sproul

Corporations aren't people. People are people! — Barack Obama

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it. — David Nicholls

Is a termite mound a construct? Beaver dam? Space ship? Of course. Were they built by naturally-evolved organisms, acting naturally? They were. So tell me how anything in the whole deep multiverse can ever be anything but natural?" I tried to keep the irritation out of my voice. "You know what I mean." "It's a meaningless question. Get your head out of the Twentieth Century. — Peter Watts