Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Michael Harrington, fully Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington

Our lives are meaningful to the degree that, as individuals or as participants in common action, we make this world the homeland of the human rather than its place of exile.

Action | World |

Hugh of St. Victor NULL

The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land.

Man | World |

Pat Buchanan, fully Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan

If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.

Beginning | Security |

Phyllis Schlafly, fully Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

Government | Security | Government |

Robert Byrd, fully Robert Carlyle Byrd

Congress should be approving a more robust homeland security bill.

Security |

Theodor Reik

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Wendell Berry

Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health - and create profitable diseases and dependences - by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving. In gardening, for instance, one works with the body to feed the body. The work, if it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus makes eating both nourishing and joyful, not consumptive, and keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight.

Conservation | Discussion | Indispensable | People |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Law |