The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays Quotes

“To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909

“We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909

“We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909

“But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909