Permanent Quotes - Page 22

• There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

  Heraclitus

  World

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• A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Peace, War

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• The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.

  Nicholas Rodger

  War, Fighting, Past

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• Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Benefits, Slavery

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• Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Religious, Men

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• Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

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• The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Law, People

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• Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Life Is, Situation

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• As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.

  C. Wright Mills

  Atheism, World, Variables

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• If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.

  John Bolton

  Real, Reflection, Distribution Of Power

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• 'I'm sorry,' guys are always telling women, 'but I'm just not ready to make a commitment.' Guys are in a permanent state of nonreadiness. If guys were turkey breasts, you could put them in a 350-degree oven on July Fourth, and they still wouldn't be done in time for Thanksgiving.

  Dave Barry

  Sorry, Commitment, July

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Organization, Literature, Irony

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• If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sports, Party, Blessing

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• Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessing, Soul, Reason

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Reflection, Men, White

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.470, Open Road Media

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• The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality.

  Joan Rivers

  Believe, Psychics, Personality

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• History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Personal Knowledge, Forever, Records

  Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.16

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• How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Future, Thinking, Today

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  Helen Keller

  Ambition, Pride, Wind Blowing

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• According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bible, Body, Scripture

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• Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Office, Age, Genius

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1846). “Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts”, p.18

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• The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dwelling, People

  Rita Mae Brown (1987). “Poems”

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• No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Soldier, Victory, Citizens

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Men, Names

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.267

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• Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Spring, Action

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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