quotes of day Friday, August 21, 2026

“If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.”

“Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.”

“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”

“If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.”

“There is no vaccine against stupidity.”

“We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.”

“I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work.... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.”

“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.”

“It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.”

“Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.”

“The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied”

“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner”

“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”