H. L. Burke Quotes
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.