A.R. Von Quotes

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

When I became vegan 5 years ago, it was truly eye opening. I think it's all about perspective, really.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

To make something you have to be something.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!