All right we are two nations
What's the use of a lague of nations if it's to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies? said Mr. Rasmussen sourly. But don't you think any kind of a league's better than nothing? said Eveline....
y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still havethat there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science hasgiven him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self govern...
There can be no reason to believe these officers of an established news organization serving newspapers all over the country failed to realize their responsibilities at a moment of supreme significanc...
Self respect. self reliance. self control.
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then t...
Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.
But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.
There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the G...
The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules composing it, says the French existentialist philosopher.
It would mean, he told the editor of the New York World, that we would lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong. It would mean that a majority of people in this hemisphere...
It seems to me, he said very softly, that human society has been always that, and perhaps will be always that: organizations growing and stifling individuals, and individuals revolting hopelessly agai...
How grave a disappointment it must be to our great President, who has exerted himself so to bring the German people to reason, to make them understand the horror that they alone have brought deliberat...
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
While his bread remains sweet, his novels may be as bitter as he likes.
U. S. A. is the slice of a continent. U. S. A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a c...
Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot ’em, that’s what I says to the Governor, but they’re all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin’ everythin’ up al...
The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.