Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd belie...fs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No doubt Jews are most obnoxious creatures. Any competent historian or psychoanalyst can bring a mass of incontrovertible evidence... to prove that it would have been better for the world if the Jews had never existed. But I, as an Irishman, can, with patriotic relish, demonstrate the same of the English. Also of the Irish.... We all live in glass houses. Is it wise to throw stones at the Jews? Is it wise to throw stones at all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such condi...tions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD forbid that I should raise my hand against the LORD's anointed; but now take the spear that is at his head, and the water... jar, and let us go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are those who never burn incense when things are going well, but then throw themselves at the Buddha's feet when crises come....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money t...o the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister a...t the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another one o' them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothing. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans. And we got...ta bring our own tin cans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No countr...y can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »