John Quotes

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

There is no more final end than death

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.