Wheen Quotes

#1. Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

Ferdinand Mount

#2. [They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Joseph Heller

#3. It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Isaac Stern

#4. the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

Francis Wheen

#5. ...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

Francis Wheen

#6. The miracles of life are love, faith and hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. In his study of eighteenth-century feelings, John Mullan argues that sentimental passion and sympathy offered 'a more inclusive vocabulary of social coherence' than politics could provide. This

Francis Wheen

#8. You are the leader you've been waiting for.

Gloria Steinem

#9. I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Karen Finerman

#10. There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Mark Twain

#11. There are 1.3 billion human beings in the world who subsist on less than a dollar a day and have yet to make their first phone call, let alone send an email. Is

Francis Wheen

#12. How does anyone ever know whether love is enough? It's an idiotic question. Like, if you fall in love, if you're that lucky, who are you to even ask whether it's enough to make you happy?

Rainbow Rowell

#13. The same politicians who demand the abolition of all impediments to the mobility of goods and services have been busily erecting mighty barriers to rebuff an accompanying wave of human beings. In

Francis Wheen