James L. Petigru quote: "If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin."

My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.
JAMES L. PETIGRU

It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can b...
JAMES L. PETIGRU

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as ...
JAMES L. PETIGRU

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
JAMES L. PETIGRU

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn&#...
E. L. JAMES

I'm a bit of a control freak.
E. L. JAMES

Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch televi...
E. L. JAMES

I see myself as a story teller.
E. L. JAMES

I hate having my photograph taken.
E. L. JAMES

Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me l...
E. L. JAMES

I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E. L. JAMES

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in ...
E. L. JAMES

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again an...
E. L. JAMES

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. JAMES

I think women love to read love stories.
E. L. JAMES

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and ...
E. L. JAMES

I'm not a great writer.
E. L. JAMES

I came up with a story and I wrote it.
E. L. JAMES

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doi...
E. L. JAMES

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches...
E. L. JAMES

Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
E. L. JAMES

God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. JAMES

I really like clever men who challenge you.
E. L. JAMES

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partner...
E. L. JAMES

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people readi...
E. L. JAMES

I think women love a passionate love story.
E. L. JAMES

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these da...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involve...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, h...
JAMES L. FISHER

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the ...
JAMES L. FISHER

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that o...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.
JAMES L. HAYES

Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.
JAMES L. HAYES

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be con...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

I took some time out for life.
JAMES L. BROOKS

You don't have to own something for it to be you. Haven't you ever gone into a gallery and seen a pa...
JAMES L. RUBART

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from th...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these day...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to sta...
JAMES L. NICODEM

When a mature and able manager feels bored, he should seriously consider changing jobs, changing com...
JAMES L. HAYES

A basic rule for managers is 'Pass the pride down.' People like to create when they can earn recogni...
JAMES L. HAYES

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
JAMES L. BROOKS

Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I re...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, ...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

Winners never quite , quiters never win
JAMES L BUCKLE

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet ...
JAMES L. CHRISTENSEN

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have suc...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public i...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpos...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
JAMES L. BROOKS

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get thr...
JAMES L. BROOKS

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book an...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?"

"Yes, I suppose I do," Epste...
JAMES L. HALPERIN

I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.
JAMES L. CAMBIAS

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it...
JAMES L. BROOKS

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
JAMES L. BROOKS

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
JAMES L. BROOKS

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
C. L. R. JAMES

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy a...
C. L. R. JAMES

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought ...
C. L. R. JAMES

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and...
C. L. R. JAMES

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal...
C. L. R. JAMES

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is...
C. L. R. JAMES

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and re...
C. L. R. JAMES

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
C. L. R. JAMES

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as t...
C. L. R. JAMES

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the ...
C. L. R. JAMES

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was s...
C. L. R. JAMES

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
C. L. R. JAMES

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capit...
C. L. R. JAMES

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
C. L. R. JAMES

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no lo...
C. L. R. JAMES

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States h...
C. L. R. JAMES

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
C. L. R. JAMES

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
C. L. R. JAMES

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future...
C. L. R. JAMES

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones...
C. L. R. JAMES

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed...
C. L. R. JAMES

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
C. L. R. JAMES

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
C. L. R. JAMES

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without i...
JAMES L. FARMER, JR.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that...
C. L. R. JAMES

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestatio...
C. L. R. JAMES

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth ce...
C. L. R. JAMES

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; w...
JAMES L. FARMER, JR.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
JAMES L. FARMER, JR.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hu...
C. L. R. JAMES

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. JAMES

I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
C. L. R. JAMES

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life to...
C. L. R. JAMES

Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L

Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L

Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L

Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL

Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON

Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE

We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L.

Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L.

Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L.

Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L.

The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L.

You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE

You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR

I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE

I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L.

That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L.

We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L.

Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L.

It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L.

In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE

Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L.

Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L.

I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE

I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE

Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L.

We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE

Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS

The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS

The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON

It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON

What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE

It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE

It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has...
PETER L. BERGER

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MENCKEN

Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit dau...
SHERI L. DEW

The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt ...
SHERI L. DEW

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years wi...
SHERI L. DEW

As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Ka...
SHERI L. DEW

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot m...
SHERI L. DEW

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. I...
SHERI L. DEW

The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive t...
SHERI L. DEW

You cannot have a relationship with someone you can't trust.
SHERI L. DEW

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. W...
SHERI L. DEW

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have t...
SHERI L. DEW

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we a...
SHERI L. DEW

Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his ...
SHERI L. DEW

Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crush...
SHERI L. DEW

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers ...
SHERI L. DEW

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.
SHERI L. DEW

Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly e...
SHERI L. DEW

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important t...
SHERI L. DEW

God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every...
SHERI L. DEW

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cult...
SHERI L. DEW

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harves...
SHERI L. DEW

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.
SHERI L. DEW

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put th...
R. L. STINE

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKEN

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gra...
JOHN L. PHILLIPS

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
DONALD L. CARCIERI

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned...
VERNON L. SMITH

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
RICHARD L. EVANS

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
RICHARD L. EVANS

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I fee...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's li...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: &#...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right n...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can b...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

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If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

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