“You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.” ThinkingWritingMayLittlesBookLanguageEffectsGoes OnSpite Author:Charlton Laird
“In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.” MenLittlesStatesPhilosophyMassDignityMethodLeavingCommunismWelfareWheelsSpiteGlowingCogsLeaving Him Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMatterSeemsLastsOpportunityNaturalOur LivesExerciseAccountsStupidityManageFormerSettlingSpiteDispositionPlagueDisappointTenorsCapricePerversity Author:William Hazlitt