“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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Category Archives: 2358 – Quote Unquote
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
~ George Santayana
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain
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The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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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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Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.
~ Roger Scruton
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one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Nationality is not the only kind of social membership, nor is it an exclusive tie. However, it is the only form of membership that has so far shown itself able to sustain a democratic process and a liberal rule of law.
~ Roger Scruton
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