The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Be careful what you do, Or Mumbo-Jumbo, god of the Congo,... And all of the other Gods of the Congo, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it i...s not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of m...y ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--wh...ich orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful chan...ges that constitutes growing older.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting dru...nk on bogey tales.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while peo...ple talk of the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.... People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »