Quotes February 28, 2024

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA
 
 
 
 
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
LATIN PROVERB
 
 
 
 
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
 
 
 
 
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
 
 
 
 
Speak not evil one of another, brethren . . . There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
JAMES 4:11-12
 
 
 
 
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO
 
 
 
 
You can still get gas in Heaven, and drink in Kingdom Come. In the meantime, I’m cleaning my gun.
MARK KNOPFLER, “CLEANING MY GUN”
 
 
 
 
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
Niccolò Machiavelli
 
 
 
 
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky
 
 
 
 
Banality of evil: A phrase coined by philosopher Hannah Arendt that describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.