Top 19 Amitai Quotes
#1. Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14
Daniel Goleman
#2. Don't fear what they fear, or dread what they dread. 13After all, only the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, should terrify you. Only God is holy. Only God should leave you trembling.
Anonymous
#3. Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.
Amitai Etzioni
#4. I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
David Levithan
#5. Remember: Even The Beatles started as a cover band.
Austin Kleon
#7. The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.
Amitai Etzioni
#8. Chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
Paul J. Meyer
#10. I stop in front of Olivia and cup her face in my hands, kissing her sweetly on the mouth. She looks up at me with her liquid eyes and something in me melts away. I think to myself that I hope it wasn't something important. Something that I needed.
M. Leighton
#11. Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.
Carew Papritz
#12. I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.
Amy Sedaris
#13. Any writer who presents an American home today where the television is not the head of the family is living in a fantasy world.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#15. It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
Amitai Etzioni
#16. The Sufi Muslims say, "Praise Allah, but also tie your camel to the post." In other words, it's good to take a transcendent view of the world, but don't be a chump.
Dan Harris
#17. Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past.
Julian May
#18. If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again ...
Ari Fleischer
#19. 'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
John Lahr
