Lasswell Quotes

#1. I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell

Mary Lasswell

#2. I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...

Mary Lasswell

#3. I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

Mary Lasswell

#4. You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.

Mary Lasswell

#5. Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

John Dewey

#6. As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

Debi Mazar

#7. The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs' turn to roll the dice.

Penny Reid

#9. Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Harold Lasswell

#10. Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.

Georges Bataille

#11. No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens ...

Victor Hugo

#12. Politics is who gets what, when, how.

Harold Lasswell

#13. The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

Harold Lasswell

#14. War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

Lily Burana

#15. Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

Harold Lasswell

#16. This day, the next, a hundred years, it's nothing. It's a heartbeat. You'll never be ready. The only woman whose love you prized will be snatched from you.

Loki Laufeyson

#17. In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

Irrfan Khan

#18. It wasn't that eating was so great
it wasn't
but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay.

Lionel Shriver

#19. The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

Peter York

#20. Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!

Mary Lasswell

#21. way." The giant scratched his head and looked doubtful.

Mary Lasswell

#22. Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

Mary Lasswell

#23. I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

Joan Sutherland