Hobgoblin Quotes

#1. We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie ... Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it.

David Foster Wallace

#2. In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

Jean Francois Revel

#3. If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Terence McKenna

#5. Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts and argyle socks.

Genie Frisbee

#6. Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency ...

Kate Christensen

#7. Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

Brandon Jennings

#8. With his fort of books the hobgoblin had come to a smooching scene and shouted for them to pipe down.

Laini Taylor

#9. Here is the most valuable thing in the whole of Moomin Valley, Groke! Do you know what has grown out of this hat? Raspberry juice and fruit trees, and the most beautiful little self-propelling clouds: the only Hobgoblin's Hat in the world!

Tove Jansson

#10. Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?'
'Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.

William Shakespeare

#11. All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Jack Kevorkian

#12. The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.

Hermester Barrington

#13. Men never believe a woman can do anything.

Christina Stead

#14. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,' she quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Patricia Cornwell

#15. Others, craven-hearted, said disparagingly, that "he threw his life away," because he resisted the government. Which way have they thrown their lives, pray? - Such

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

Paul Craig Roberts

#17. O friends, no more these sounds!
Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

Friedrich Schiller

#18. So be brave and be good and be everything.
For him.

Lisa Henry

#19. The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Philip Johnson

#20. He was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival
death.

Vasily Grossman