J.M. August Quotes

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

The nature of business is swindling.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.