Quotes - September 22, 2010
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:12 pm
Thanks Stephen.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
-- Norman Mailer
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
-- Norman Mailer
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862