#lists

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cruelty #delight #good #hell #infliction

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fate #form #idealists #ideals #obtain

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#birds #clouds #fly #go #many

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#i #i am #i do #leaders #man

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#good #insult #journalism #journalists #you

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#although #anne #canada #easy #even

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists. ↗

— Otto Schily

#classified #document #does #every #freedom

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#also #always #companies #did #evil

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#environmentalists #hero #his #policies #roosevelt