Whelden Library Quotes

#1. Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

David Foster Wallace

#2. Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? ... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it ... We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.

Jim Clyburn

#3. Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?

Stieg Larsson

#4. Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Steven Pinker

#5. It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Terry Eagleton

#6. I'm not trying to be a pop singer.

Sharon Jones