A.J. Russell Quotes

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Memory demands an image.

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.