quotes of day Wednesday, October 7, 2026

“I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.”

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

“It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."”

“We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.”

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

“It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.”

“I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.”

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

“Fear is the enemy of logic.”

“We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.”

“A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.”

“Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.”

“Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.”

“You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .”

“If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.”

“Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.”

“I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.”