December 8, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.” Spinoza
December 4, 2019December 6, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” George Bernard Shaw
December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security… In fact the true aim of government is liberty.” Spinoza
November 30, 2019December 1, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” George Bernard Shaw
November 30, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” George Orwell
November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” Charles Baudelaire
November 24, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.” Abraham Lincoln
November 23, 2019 Allan ShowalterQuotations “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” Steve Martin
