Gaetano Mosca Quotes

#1. How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

Anthony Marra

#2. Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. A 2013 study by Riley Dunlap and political scientist Peter Jacques found that a striking 72 percent of climate denial books, mostly published since the 1990s, were linked to right-wing think tanks, a figure that rises to 87 percent if self-published books (increasingly common) are excluded.23

Naomi Klein

#4. The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

Gaetano Mosca

#6. When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Julian Casablancas

#7. Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

Wayne W. Dyer

#8. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Jean De La Bruyere