Thursday, April 10, 2014

Book Smart; seven of some of the best

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.”
The Wealth Of Nations By Adam Smith

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles… It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.”
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

“From this arise an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.”
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

“So then I understand. It was war that made her so angry. She didn’t want her babies or anybody’s babies killed in wars. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies.”
Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut

“ By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
Moby Dick by Herman Melville


“No man can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

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