Saul Quotes

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Fidelity is for phonographs

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.