Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Leo Rosten

Quote by Leo Rosten

“In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.”

Quote by Leo Rosten

Book:The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n
Create image

Work

The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n

This book is a continuation of the story of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n, featuring further adventures and developments in a complex and imaginative world. more

Author

Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten

Leo Rosten was an American author and teacher, born on April 11, 1908, and died on February 19, 1997. He is known for his humorous writing style and profound insights into American culture. more

You May Also Like

“A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.”

TogetherPoliticalUsedFightingFearVoiceAnimalCareersAtheismBandDirectorsRiversHorseEmbraceMeetingsGreedRageLustPracticalsUsed To BeCorporationsBoardsCollectivesSweatConventionsPigsIdealismFistsAdvancementMedievalGet TogetherBoard Of DirectorsCarnivalsVendettaFeudsFiesta
Book:The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Create image

“"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."”

MenGivingLongFactsValuesChoicesFearResponsibilityMoralPrinciplesAtheismJudgingMurderVictimPreparedOneselfRageChecksTortureStakesJudgedBlankBe PreparedNeutralityCondemningMoral ValuesMoral PrinciplesMoral ResponsibilityAbdicationBlank Check
Author:Ayn Rand
Create image