A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
irony iz: "Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business."
how convenient
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
“[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.”
“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”
“Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.”
“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”
“Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.”
“All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.”
“There is no bigot like the atheist.” – Magic
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
“You can’t have the family farm without the family.”
“All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.” – “On Gargoyles,”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.”
“You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”
“The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.”
“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”
helluva composter ffs
“Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”
“The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.” 1926
“America is the only country ever founded on a creed.”
“Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all.”
your words, use them faggots
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.”
“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.”
“Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.”
“There are some desires that are not desirable.” – Orthodoxy
inside joke
“America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.”
ok send love, your turn
“There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.”