History. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, ...mostly fools.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, & wha...t language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way;Mall this comes of Authorship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully the buildup in the South of a spe...cial consciousness brought about by the self- condemnation resulting from slavery, the humiliation following the War Between the States and the hope, sometimes expressed timidly, for redemption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own... power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence o...r guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever thinks a lot--which is to say, "objectively"Mreadily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts that they have brou...ght about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought ...about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a se...t of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country's pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of ...today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »