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Henry J. Cadbury
* "Among the curious tales of insane persons with which I was entertained in my youth was one of a man who called himself an Octagon. To my father, who met him in a routine visit that he paid as director to an asylum, the patient explained that he had a front side and a back side, a top side and a bottom side, an inside and an outside, a right side and a left side. That makes eight sides or an octagon."
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Joseph Campbell
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
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Albert Camus
* "Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world."
"It is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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Thomas Carlyle
* "A man's honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses: let him communicate this, if he is to communicate anything."
"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."
* "If you find many people who are hard and indifferent to you in a world that you consider to be unhospitable and cruel—as often, indeed, happens to a tender-hearted, stirring young creature—you will also find there are noble hearts who will look kindly on you, and their help will be precious to you beyond price."
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Dr. Ben Carson
“All citizens need to arm themselves with a basic knowledge of American history and stay abreast of current events, analyzing them with respect to history”
"A major problem is that many people in our entitlement society see nothing wrong with forcing others to provide for their desires. In a free and open society, anyone should be able to purchase anything he or she wants that is legal. It really should be no one else's business. Common sense dictates, however, that it immediately becomes my business if I'm being forced to pay for it."
"I will never become a politician under any circumstances. I will never get in bed with special interest groups. I just don't believe in that kind of thing. I think public servants should be just that - public servants. And if we don't have a system that allows somebody who has the interest of the people and the country in mind to make it in the political arena, then I guess I would never get there."
"One of the principles of Saul Alinsky (author of leftist bible, Rules for Radicals) is: you make the majority believe that what they think is outdated and nobody thinks that way, and that the way they think is the only way intelligent people think. And if you can co-opt the media in the process, you’re far ahead of the game. That’s exactly what’s happened, and it’s time for people to stand up and proclaim what they believe and stop being bullied!"
"Stand up for the rights of someone with whom you disagree. Win through respect"
* "There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing. But did they speak up? Did they stand up for what they believed? They did not. And you saw what happened. And if you believe that the same thing can't happen again, you are very wrong."
* "We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe. And it’s because of the PC police, it’s because of politicians, it’s because of news. All of these things are combining to stifle people’s conversation. The reason that is so horrible is because the only way you have harmony and reach a consensus is by talking. But if, in fact, people are afraid to talk, you never reach consensus. And instead you grow further and further apart. And that’s exactly what’s happening, creating a horrible schism that will destroy our nation if we don’t fix it."
"We, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group." [on Morning Joe, 5/21/14]
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George Washington Carver
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Douglas Case
* "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
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Bruce Catton
"The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting before a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train."
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Cervantes
[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
"Remember that by seeking the impossible you may justly be denied the possible."
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Paul Cezanne
"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it."
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Andrew Chaikin
"Space is the endless frontier, and when we back away from exploring it we deny the imperative written in our DNA and sow the seeds of our own decline." [with Victoria Kohl]
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Coco Chanel
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
* "Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out."
"Man is what he believes."
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G. K. Chesterton
"There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped." - Orthodoxy (1908), p. 58
"Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities. ...The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times; it is waiting till the last fad shall have seen its last summer. It keeps the key of a permanent virtue." ~ G.K. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross.
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Anjem Choudary
[Muslim extremist from the UK]
"We take the Jizya [tax on non-Muslims], which is ours anyway. The normal situation is to take money from the kuffar [non-Muslim]. They give us the money. You work, give us the money, Allahu Akhbar [Allah is great]. We take the money."
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Sir Winston Churchill
* "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
* "A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
* "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
* "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
* "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
because... it is the quality which guarantees all others."
* "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
* "Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."
"History is written by the victors."
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
* "If you are going through hell, keep going."
* "In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."
* "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
* "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." [Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941]
* "No compromise on the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong -- that is the Declaration of July 4th, 1918." [speaking at a joint Anglo-American rally in Westminster, July 4, 1918, against calls for a negotiated truce with Germany.]
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
* "Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."
* "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." [speech in the House of Commons, October 22, 1945]
"There is no such thing as a good tax."
* "There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies and that is fighting without them."
* "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
* "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
Roman orator, philosopher and statesman (106-43 B.C.)
* "A friend is, as it were, a second self."
* "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
"If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity."
* "Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
* "Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)"
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Arthur C. Clarke
* "A faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."
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Frank A. Clark
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
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George Rogers Clark
"If a country were not worth protecting, it was not worth claiming."
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Ramsey Clark
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you"
"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals"
"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."
"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."
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James Clavell
* "The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous."
"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline — training — is about."
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Clement of Rome
* "Every kind of honor and enlargement was bestowed upon you, and then ... flowed emultion and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years." - First Epistle to the Corinthians, c. 97
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Paulo Coelho
"Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world."
"Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once."
"You must always know what it is that you want."
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*"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
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Marva Nettles Collins
"Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have." [ascribed]
"Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail."
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Charles Caleb Colton
"Imitation is the sincerest flattery"
"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
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Joseph Conrad
"Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail."
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Eliza Cook
"There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam."
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Dr. Mary Lou Cook
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
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Calvin Coolidge
* "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity
to be worshiped."
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Aaron Copland
* "So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it."
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Bill Cosby
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
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Norman Cousins
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
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Stephen Crane
* "A man said to the universe: 'Sir I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'the fact has not created in me sense of obligation.'"
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Michael Crichton
* "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period."
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Dr. Mark A. Crislip
* "Sometimes recognizing a lie is simple. If you offer reiki, homeopathy, acupuncture or craniosacral therapy to treat any disease you are lying to your patients and almost certainly to yourself, as these therapies are not based on reality and do nothing."
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas
"I don't trust the Republicans. I don't trust the Democrats, and I think a whole lot of Americans likewise don't trust the Republicans or the Democrats because it is leadership in both parties that has got us into this mess."
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e. e. cummings
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
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George William Curtis
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
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Richard James Cardinal Cushing
"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
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