Leadership isn’t always straightforward, but a great leader should know when to be simple and direct.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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In the summer of 1789, as peasants attacked chateaus and revolutionaries vowed to “abolish privilege,” many members of the elite felt that their world had suddenly fallen apart. In truth, it had been disintegrating for decades. Today, as in the 1790s, an old order is ending in convulsions.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don’t research anything. If I need something, I’ll invent it.
~ Mickey Spillane
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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
~ T.S. Eliot
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The quintessential Levy subject is a member of the intelligentsia, a historian studying male tyrants, a poet, a doctoral student in anthropology. These characters are 21st-century Herzogs, who can’t help but channel their neuroses through the prism of their intellectual fixations.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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