His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were t...errible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the best able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the ascendant which his genius gained over theirs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Respect--not tolerance--must be our goal if we would diminish prejudice in our time. For tolerance is often but a gentle disguise ...for prejudice: the tolerant often behave as self-appointed connoisseurs of weaknesses in others, or self-appointed protectors of those whom they deem to be their inferiors. Psychologically, there is a strong resemblance between the stridently "tolerant" and the prejudiced. For while the one may descend to attacking whole groups of men and the other may rise to a passionate defense of them, both are equally indiscriminate in their attack or defense; and neither has any concern whatsoever for individual character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've no time now, but believe me as surely as the moon will set and the sun will rise I shall kill you tomorrow night. I shall kil...l you even if you hide in the deepest cave of the earth. At ten o'clock tomorrow night, I shall kill you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't danc...e at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, .../>Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God damnit, why must all those journalists be such sticklers for detail? Why, they'd hold you to an accurate description of the fi...rst time you ever made love, expecting you to remember the color of the room and the shape of the windows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his ...marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »