Himmelfarb Quotes

#1. I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

Ian Anderson

#2. Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#3. Absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#4. Even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Susan B. Anthony

#5. The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#6. For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#7. In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ...

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#8. My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. They're only stories," he would say, "What do stories matter?" But he wasn't stupid. He knew as well as Myrddin that in the end stories are all that matter.

Philip Reeve

#10. Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#11. I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Cole Porter

#12. The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#13. If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#15. Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Gertrude Himmelfarb