#lie

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#conviction #greater #i #intellectual #known

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#amount #believe #believing #could #deter

Don't be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren't any good at writing. That fear is normal. I feel it. Most writers who care about what they are writing feel it. When you feel like you're not good enough, write anyway. It's just a pesky bug that's whispering lies. The best way to swat the bug is with your pen. ↗

— Tanya Anderson

#insecurity #lies #writing #age

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#like #murder #occasionally #run #seems

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#america #because #become #believe #care

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alien #america #bulwark #conscious #decent

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#citizenship #discontent #doctrines #good #government

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#being #believe #could #feel #i

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#milieu #national #present #self-defense #wars