Quotes for All
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist ‘has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.’ This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither … Read more
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. Erich Fromm
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer. Erich Fromm
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as ‘education’. Emma Goldman
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god–Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment. Emma … Read more
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year — ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge — and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery. Friedrich … Read more
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success… All human experience proves over and over again, that any … Read more
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the \”fronts\” people assume before one another’s eyes, and the \”front\” a writer puts on the face of reality. Francoise Sagan
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking–but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don’t like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. Drew Barrymore