Ron Peters > Ron's Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow”
― Edward R. Murrow, In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
― Martin Luther

“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey

“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
― Mark Hanna

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." ― George Orwell: Narrative Essays, Tribune, 22 March 1946.”
― George Orwell

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity within these 30 years, then I must be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti [tiresome, complaining, a praiser of past times]; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear offensively to my observation.”
― Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker