Great Throughts Treasury

"There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way."

"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."

"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."

"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."

"Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden."

"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."

"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."

"Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools."

"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."

"Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."

"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."