J. Green Quotes

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

Golf is tougher than my first wife.

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

Death is only perfect rest.

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.