“The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.” CountryLawSpiritLyingGrowthCourageTalentTasksLawyerDumbWealthyClientsDisbeliefEnablingEfficacy Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.” MadeGovernmentAgeLyingCommonBlindCourtCommon SenseDumbHypocrisyBetrayComplaintsFlatteryDeafCalumny Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.” ShouldEarthLyingDiesFallTearsProudSorrowFameMountainEarsShameTalesWarriorAliensDumbFallenInsultWoeFoeScornSolemnBleedingHushHeathenHaughty Author:William Somervile
“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.” PeopleWayMadeBookFactsKidsLyingInterestBrainMoralOpinionInformationTelevisionConstantComplexesDumbStreamsPlotSophisticatedInsecureDilemmaVested InterestsMoral DilemmaInterest In Others Author:A. A. Gill
“I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins.” IfsWorldShouldBelieveDeathLyingDiesI BelieveColdKissingBreathsDumbVeinsExileLife DeathEyelidsIsleOrbs Book:Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend Source: Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend