Guido Bergmans > Guido's Quotes

“Teksten aanpassen tot ze voldoen aan de morele, politieke of culturele eisen van onze tijd is een zachte vorm van boekverbranding.”
― Marcel Möring, Mordechai

“Perhaps it would be an idea to require developers to live on their own estates for five years, as a demonstration of their superb liveability. It’s just a thought. I”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

“Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

“De kinderen van Lucifer zijn dikwijls mooi. En zoals wij weten, gaat het hun altijd voor de wind. (Miss Marple)”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Uw moeder maakt het ook goed, hoop ik? Al gewend daar in Bournemouth?"
"O ja, ze vindt het er heerlijk", antwoordde Edmund, die geen flauw idee had hoe zijn moeder het vond, doch, gelijk de meeste zonen, graag veronderstelde dat alles in orde was met die lieve, maar vaak zo hinderlijk irriterende oudelui.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about”
― Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― George Orwell

“J'ai consulté mon téléphone: je n'avais aucun message. C'est à cela que servent les téléphones portables, à se rendre compte que personne ne pense à vous. Avant, on pouvait toujours rêver que quelqu'un cherchait à vous joindre, à vous parler, à vous aimer. Nous vivons maintenant avec cet objet qui matérialise notre solitude.”
― David Foenkinos, La tête de l'emploi

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

“Intellectuals may almost be defined as people who can easily be convinced of fanciful dogmas concerning matters of which they are comprehensively ignorant.”
― David Ramsay Steele, The Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele’s Legendary Lost Lectures

“... what 'many have pointed out' is, as so very often, quite wrong.”
― David Ramsay Steele, The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits

“Innovation poses a double threat to academic mediocrity: it undermines their authority as oracles and evokes the most profound, possibly unconscious fear that their entire painstakingly built intellectual edifice might collapse.”
― Mauro Biglino, Gods of the Bible: A New Interpretation of the Bible Reveals the Oldest Secret in History

“We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”
― Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey