“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where it’s going out of style.”
Raymond Chandler (quote from The Big Sleep)
Tag: Quote of the Day
29AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
Raymond Chandler (quote from The Big Sleep)
28AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.”
Raymond Chandler, quote from The Big Sleep
27AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“Tall, aren’t you?” she said.
“I didn’t mean to be.”
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.”
―Raymond Chandler (quote from The Big Sleep)
26AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
Ludwig von Mises
25AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer
24AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
23AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
Eric Hoffer
22AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
Eric Hoffer
21AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
Eric Hoffer