#so

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #bring #chance #comedy #does

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#combat #couple #i #last #months

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#bad #bad taste #comedy #great #i

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#brooks #film #i #i think #me

I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#because #christianity #hearings #homeland #homeland security

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#ask #best #cannot #even #few

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#air #always #angels #breaks #burden

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#around #back #been #coach #comes

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ↗

— Xun Zi

#despise #determination #detestable #evil #good

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few