A.P. Herbert Quotes
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
