Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

I told my friends of the cloth that I did not believe Christ was meek and lowly but a real living, vital agitator who went into the temple with a lash and a krout and whipped the oppressors of the poor, routed them out of the doors and spilled their blood and got silver on the floor. He told the robbed and misruled and exploited and driven people to disobey their plunderers, he denounced the profiteers, and it was for this that they nailed his quivering body to the cross and spiked it to the gates of Jerusalem, not because he told them to love one another. That was harmless doctrine. But when he touched their profits and denounced them before their people he was marked for crucifixion.

Right |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

Famous |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.

Books | Church | Meaning | Silence | Talking | Time | Writing |

Euripedes NULL

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

Youth holds no society with grief.

Silence |

Ezra Taft Benson

In the work of the Lord there should be no serious mistakes. The most important point of your planning should be on your knees.

Pride | Relationship |

Gustave Flaubert

It was for him that she had done it -- for this creature here, this man who understood nothing, who felt nothing.

Silence |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

Beginning | Change | Silence | Understand |