quotes of day Sunday, October 11, 2026

“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”

“At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.”

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

“It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.”

“Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.”

“The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.”

“The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.”

“Innovation doesn't care about anyone.”

“Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.”

“Elections are futures markets in stolen property.”

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

“The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.”