Quotes of: Lao-tzu Keyword

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

C. L. R. James

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Chris Patten

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Ingmar Bergman

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

Cesar Millan

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

Felix Dennis

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Karl Marx

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Plato

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

Stanley Hauerwas

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

James Hillman

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

Noam Chomsky

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Noam Chomsky

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

White House Man: You can forget about your combat troops. He told McNamara he's gonna pull out the goddamn advisors! He fucked us in Laos and now he is gonna fuck us in Goddamn Vietnam!

JFK

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

The Cost of Discipleship

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu