IT IS NOT the apparatus of the machine that’s wrong, but the organized cult of machinery that is really evil. It is a monster that can transform man into a passive, purposeless animal. It can run away with him.
SCIENCE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE, quoting Rabelais, “is the ruin of the soul.
“The most conspicuous, scientific and technological achievements of our age — nuclear bombs, rockets, computers — are all direct products of war and serve military and political ends that would shrivel under rational examination and candid moral appraisal.”
HE WAS CONVINCED that man’s only hope lay in a return to human feelings and sensitivities and to the moral values of an earlier age.
THE TEST OF MATURITY, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase in power but the increase of self-understanding, self-control, self-direction and self-trancendance. For in a mature society, man himself, and not his machines or his organizations, is the chief work of art. LEWIS MUMFORD newyorktimes jan.28, 1990
AFTER ALL, no one knows what he is like, he just tries to give some sort of picture of his time. Not like a cat to fight its image in the mirror. HENRY GREEN
I SHUT MY EYES FOR A FEW MINUTES, WITH my portable typewriter on my knee — I make my mind as blank and wait — and then, as clearly as I would see real children, my characters stand before me in my mind’s eye . . . the first sentence comes straight into my mind, I don’t have to think of it — I don’t have to think of anything. ENID BLYTON
PEACE is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you giver away. JOHN LENNON
ALL WAR must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT DEALS IN THAT ATROCITY OF ATROCITIES, WAR. MARK TWAIN
ART BUCHWALD 1925-2007. “Too Soon to Say Goodbye”.
YOU can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
THIS IS NOT an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
WHETHER it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST ARE NOT THINGS.
PEOPLE who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.
IF you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
I LOOK AT LIFE as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I’m going first class.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE your world stands still . . .There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.
I HAVE NO IDEA where I’m going but here’s the real question: What am I doing here in the first place.
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE AREN’T THINGS.
IF YOU’RE HUNG UP ON NOSTALGIA, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
IF PRESIDENT NIXON’S secretary,
Rosemary Woods, had been Moses’ secretary, there would only be eight commandments.
Rosemary Woods, had been Moses’ secretary, there would only be eight commandments.
PEOPLE ASK what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, “I’m getting even.”
TELEVISION has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.
I LEARNED QUICKLY that when I made others laugh, they liked me.
SHARING OUR DEPRESSION felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
I WORSHIP THE QUICKSAND HE (RICHARD NIXON) WALKS IN.
I KNOW it’s very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.
OVER THE YEARS I have a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.
ON THE WHOLE I WOKE UP IN THE MORNING & WAS HAPPY TO BE ALIVE.
I JUST DON’T WANT TO DIE THE SAME DAY CASTRO DIES.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD 1854-1854 “ILLUMINATIONS”.
MISFORTUNE WAS MY GOD.
LIFE IS A FARCE WHICH EVERYONE HAS TO PERFORM.
I BELIEVE THAT I AM IN HELL, THEREFORE I AM THERE.
ONLY DIVINE LOVE BESTOWS THE KEYS OF KNOWLEDGE.
I SAW that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
IDLE youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
BUT, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
JOYCE BROTHERS 1927-2013 “HOW TO GET WHATEVER YOU WANT”. 64 THOUSAND dollar question.
SUCCESS is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
HAPPINESS hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.
THE ONLY PEOPLE who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything.
When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.
BEFORE your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
IF YOU CHANGE NOTHING, NOTHING CHANGES.
TRUST YOUR HUNCHES . . . HUNCHES are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.