Great Throughts Treasury

"Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting." -

"But you have to go to the East to understand what the religion . I really understood the religious sentiment only there; religions is the true home of the East. And, after all, Catholicism is an Eastern religion, which has spread everywhere, but perhaps only the spirit of those countries can assimilate and accept it totally." - Eugenio Montale

"There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one." - Euripedes NULL

"He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?" - Ezra Taft Benson

"The ethical element of religion has ever been its truly vital and quickening force. It is this which lends such majesty to the speeches of the Prophets, which gives such ineffable power and sweetness to the words of Jesus. Has this ethical element become less important in our age? Has the need of accentuating it become less imperative?" - Felix Adler

"No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith." - J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly