Bernard Quotes

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Financial storm definitely passed.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Television is a young person's medium.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Free men stick their necks out.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.