Quotes Category
Patrick Pearse Quote: “We have not lost…”
Posted on March 26, 2016
“We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose. We have kept faith with the past, and handed down a tradition to the future.” – When condemned to death following the Easter Rising 1916.
Aristotle on Usury
Posted on March 21, 2016 4 Comments
“The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is […]
Quote on Perfection from Fulgrim, Horus Heresy.
Posted on May 2, 2015 1 Comment
‘Can it be possible for a thing to be too perfect?’ asked Fulgrim. ‘Surely everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.’ ‘Great art isn’t about reason, it’s about what comes from the heart’ said Ostian. ‘You can work with all the technical perfection in the galaxy, but if there […]
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Posted on April 6, 2015
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world does […]
