Durman Gas Quotes

#1. Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Studs Terkel

#2. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

Ayn Rand

#3. People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#4. A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

Kate Clinton

#5. What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

Aleister Crowley

#6. This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Allen Ginsberg

#7. What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another.

Tony Judt