The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, bu...t to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a maje...stic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as hot-blooded as the earlier Macbeth when he kills Polonius and the King, cold-blooded as the later Macbeth or Iago when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-...blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other people have done what you're doing, then they're sorry afterwards. You needn't be. Sooner or later, Bowers would be committi...ng other robberies. Killing maybe. He'd have to. It's the only way he can live. Perhaps that's our fault. It probably is. But it's too late. He hasn't got a chance. You've saved a lot of people a lot of grief. I don't think that's going to help me sleep nights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark... Reminds me of all that can happen to harm An orchard away at the end of the farm....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »