J.L. Bond Quotes

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can

I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

You are the conductor of your own success train.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.