Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“I could not help weeping with him - not over my own fate which, however clearly laid out, was just as sad as his, but over the injustices, the iniquities, and the crimes to which the exploited poor are always and everywhere subjected to, by a mob of scoundrels and trash who deck themselves out in many-colored robes, in helmet and plumed hats, in gold and silver embroideries, and take themselves titles of majesty, holiness, eminence, lordship, in order to fleece, bleed, and slaughter the poor.”
― Jean-Marie Deguignet

“truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.”
― Martin Heidegger

“life is not a tale of progress. It is rather, a story of intricate branching and wandering, with momentary survivors adapting to changing local enviornments, not approaching cosmic or engineering perfection”
― Stephan Jay Gould

“Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.”
― Peter Schiff

“There is something ineluctably male about coalitional aggression - men bonding with men to engage in aggression against other men,”
― Rose McDermott

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain