#list

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#deliberate #dishonest #enemy #great #great enemy

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#chris #chris rock #did #environmentalist #hill

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#i #impossible #into #kind #like

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#failure #proletariat #republic #russian #socialist

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#due #every #girlfriend #his #mode

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#achieve #cannot #capitulation #confused #democrats

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#made #socialist #statesmen

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#contemporary music #i #know #listen #music