There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
~ Roger Scruton
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
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What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
~ Marcel Proust
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There is nothing in this World constant but inconstancy, yet Plato thought that if virtue would appear to the world in her own native dress, all men would be enamoured with her.
~ Jonathan Swift
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“The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real. I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.”
~ Chester Himes
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If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
~ Anton Chekhov
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