Age is opportunity no less than youth itself., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (1807 1882)
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable., Eric Hoffer, (1902 1983)
GotLink.plThe test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms., HenriFrédéric Amiel,
Political language and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind., George Orwell, 1946, English essayist, novelist, satirist (1903 1950)
The secret of being boring is to say everything., Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)