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Quotations of the Day: October 2003
October 31, 2003
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars. —Orson Welles
October 30, 2003
Television was supposed to be a national park. [Instead] it has become a money machine…. It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies. —Fred W. Friendly
October 29, 2003
From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can’t think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn’t wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience. —June Jordan
October 28, 2003
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throughout the 1980’s,… we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do. —Hillary Rodham Clinton
October 25, 2003
Americans developed the resourcefulness and wisdom to solve the problem of organizing a nation in the midst of war and crisis, one of the greatest achievements of modern political history. —Henry Steele Commager
October 24, 2003
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. —Belva Lockwood
October 23, 2003
Nothing is so galling to a people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. —Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
October 22, 2003
Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, / And her conception of the joyous Prime. —Edmund Spenser
October 21, 2003
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 20, 2003
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. —Dave Bristol
October 19, 2003
Yet is every man his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. —Sir Thomas Browne
October 18, 2003
War is a fevered god / who takes alike / maiden and king and clod…. —Hilda Doolittle
October 17, 2003
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. —Samuel Ullman
October 16, 2003
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. —Charles William Eliot
October 15, 2003
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. —John F. Kennedy
October 14, 2003
Olaf (being to all intents / a corpse and wanting any rag / Upon what god unto him gave) / responds, without getting annoyed / “I will not kiss your f.ing flag” —E.E. Cummings
October 13, 2003
’Rise like Lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number, / Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep had fallen on you— / Ye are many—they are few. —Percy Bysshe Shelley
October 12, 2003
An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises. —Friedrich Nietzsche
October 11, 2003
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. —Montaigne
October 10, 2003
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it. —Woodrow Wilson
October 9, 2003
Bullfight critics row on row / Crowd the vast arena full / But only one man’s there who knows / And he’s the man who fights the bull. —Author unknown
October 8, 2003
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites—rather than fighting for jobs or education—fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior. —Jesse Jackson
October 7, 2003
From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience. —Bernard Lewis
October 6, 2003
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn’t realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. —Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
October 5, 2003
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. —Dwight D. Eisenhower
October 4, 2003
The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws. —John Joseph Lynch, SJ
October 3, 2003
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. —Emily Post
October 2, 2003
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. —Wallace Stevens
October 1, 2003
According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. —Jimmy Carter
