M.K. Alexander Quotes

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

I think being on Weeds, in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

I want to empower women.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.