1870 Mask Quotes

#1. The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

Jules Verne

#2. Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

Patrick Chappatte

#3. The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Robert Anton Wilson

#4. But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Rudyard Kipling

#5. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Satchel Paige

#6. There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

Allan Dwan

#7. Film, I think, is my medium.

Pia Zadora

#8. There is an earned innocence, I believe, which is as much to be honored as the innocence of children.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

Carl Sagan

#10. Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Jane Jacobs