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Authors G thru J

'Gabarus'
“'Madame President'. Say it with us now. It's gonna happen. Get used to it.” - comment on Washington Post website on October 2  {blog 10/2016}

Clark Gable [1901-60]
“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames [that] I'm supposed to have jumped on,
I'd have had no time to go fishing.”  {blog 4/2008}

Neal Gabler
• • “More often than not 'fair' and 'balanced' may be mutually exclusive.”
op-ed in the Los Angeles Times  {blog 4/2010}
• • “All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but [Karl] Rovism posits
that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all.” – in 2004  {blog 8/2013}

Dennis Gabor
“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.”  {Issue #45}

celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor [1917-2016]
• • “A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.”  {blog 11/2020}

author Neil Gaiman
• • “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”  {blog 7/2015}
• • “And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules.
Leave the world more interesting for your having been here.”  {blog 6/2016}

Serge Gainsbourg [1928-91]
“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”  {blog 5/2012}

novelist Mary Gaitskill
“Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.”  {blog 10/2015}

macro-economist James K. Galbraith
• • “It is a horror that taxes have fallen so much for the very wealthy
and risen so much for the working poor and the middle class.”  {Issue #47}
• • “Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation
and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed
this disproof of His own existence.”  {Issue #57}
• • “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy:
that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”  {blog 5/2009}
• • “The United States has many problems at the moment: a high-and-stubborn unemployment rate,
a foreclosure catastrophe, a slowing economy that has not recovered and will not recover from the
Great Crisis, and the ongoing challenges of infrastructure, energy and climate change.”  {blog 8/2011}

economist John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006]
• • “Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”   {blog 9/2009}
• • “Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists”
• • “It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out
on the troubled sea of thought.”  {blog 11/2009}
• • “I spent my youth worrying about corporate power. Now I worry about corporate incompetence.”  {blog 11/2009}
• • “Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”  {blog 12/2009}
• • “Meetings are indespensible when you don't want to do anything.”  {blog 5/2012}
• • “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”  {blog 11/2012}
• • “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy:
that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”  {blog 8/2014}
• • “There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”  {blog 4/2017}
• • “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”  {blog 7/2018}

Rivka Galchen
“In quantum mechanics, the Universe, at its most elemental level, is random, an idea
that tends to upset people.”   {blog 4/2011}

pagan poet A.M. Galdorcraeft
“Do not judge my path, you haven't walked in my shoes . . . or ridden my broom.”  {blog 9/2018}

physicist & astronomer Galileo Galilei [1564-1642]
• • “We will laugh at the extraordinary stupidity of the crowd.” (in 1610)  {Issue #62}
• • “To understand the universe, you must know the language in which it is written.
And that language is mathematics.”  {Issue #62}
• • “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning
of a single individual.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “Doubt is the father of invention.”  {blog 11/2010}
• • “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason,
and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”  {blog 9/2014}
• • “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”  {blog 8/2017}
• • “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”  {blog 3/2023}

American comedian Gallagher [1946-2022]
“Sex is like a Chinese dinner - it ain’t over until you both get your cookies.”  {blog 11/2022}

John Galsworthy [1867-1933]
“Life calls the tune, we dance.”  {blog 4/2013}

baseball player Oscar Gamble
“They don't think it be like it is, but it do.” – circa 1975  {blog 7/2015}

Gandalf character, as written by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973], in "The Hobbit" [1937]
“All good stories deserve embellishment.”  {blog 4/2017}

Dr. Arun Gandhi
“As long as we pursue this materialistic kind of lifestyle where we make money, and possessions [are]
the only ambition in life, we are going to go downhill and eventually destroy ourselves.”  {Issue #14}

Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi  [1869-1948]
Mahatma Gandhi Quotations Page at Working Minds

Megan Garber, staff writer at The Atlantic Magazine
“Competing truths . . . are no longer the primary threat to American culture. Competing lies are.”  {blog 8/2018}

Jerry Garcia [1942-95], member of the Grateful Dead  band
“You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.”  {blog 7/2012}

Jesus Garcia, Jr. of Lynwood, California
“What kind of man am I if I do not help make this world better?”  {Issue #56}

mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner [1889-1970]
• • “All that really counts is a man's ability to live, to get the most out of it as he goes thru it,
and he gets the most kick out of it by playing a no-limit game.”  {Issue #33}
• • “Life, like money, is meant to be spent.”  {Issue #63}
• • “Interest in life is the very best form of wealth.”  {blog 2/2017}

playwright Herb Gardner [1935-2003]
“My ambition consists entirely of being able to [write] well enough
that they let me do it again – and to avoid public disgrace.”  {Issue #36}

John W. Gardner [1912-2002]
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”  {blog 8/2011 & 12/2023}

entertainer Judy Garland [1922-69]
• • “Behind every cloud . . . is another cloud.”  {blog 6/2016 & 8/2019}
• • “I believe in the idea of the rainbow, and I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.”  {blog 6/2019}
• • “I'm not telling you [that] it is going to be easy. I'm telling you [that] it's going to be worth it.”  {blog 12/2019}
• • “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”  {blog 5/2020}

Steven R. Garman
“Physics is the universe's operating system.”  {blog 11/2010}

William Lloyd Garrison [1805-79]
“With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but with tyrants I will
give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”  {blog 8/2009}

cookbook author Ina Garten
“Simple is the most sophisticated thing of all.”  {blog 6/2012}

author William H. Gass [1924-2017]
“The fear that the human race might not survive has been replaced by the fear that it will endure.”  {blog 1/2018}

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, Inc. [est. 1975]
• • “640K ought to be enough [memory] for anybody.” (in 1981)  {blog 5/2010}
• • “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking [that] they can't lose.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: opportunity.”  {blog 8/2015}
• • “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will
occur in the next ten.”  {blog 12/2015}
• • “We don't have a world government. Fortunately, we don't have that many world problems – most problems
can be solved locally – but this one [climate change] is a world problem.”  {blog 5/2016}
• • “We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.”  {blog 6/2018}
• • “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”  {blog 2/2021}
• • “Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet.”  {blog 8/2023}

billionaire Melinda French Gates
“A world that limits women’s power and influence also robs itself of women’s talents and contributions.”  {blog 7/2022}

William Campbell Gault [1910-95]
“Your mother has to be there when you are born, but nobody has to be there when you die.”  {blog 12/2009}

Prof. Willard Gaylin
“Expressing anger is a form of public littering.”  {blog 1/2012}

architect Frank Gehry
“I have always felt that if you know in advance what you are doing, then you are not going to do it.”  {blog 4/2017}

character Gordon Gekko
in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps" [2010]
“It's not about the money – It's about the game.”  {blog 11/2015}

journalist Martha Gellhorn [1908-98]
“Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”  {blog 5/2018}

Jean Genet [1910-86]
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young
and never dreamed at all.”   {blog 1/2011}

Chief Dan George [1899-1981]
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you
will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.”  {blog 12/2010}

Henry George [1839-97]
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be,
the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”  {Issue #43}

Native American leader Geronimo [1829-1909]
“I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others,
this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.”  {blog 10/2010}

George Gershwin [1898-37]
“Rumors about highbrow music ridiculous. Am out to write hits.”
(telegram to his agent, circa 1935)  {blog 8/2008}

comic actor Ricky Gervais
• • “Saying [that] atheism is a belief system is like saying [that] not going skiing is a hobby.”  {blog 2/2014}
• • “Just because you're offended doesn't mean [that] you're right.”  {blog 6/2016}
• • “When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. It's only difficult for others. It's the same way when you're stupid.”  {blog 8/2019}

Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen
“Lying is the message. It's not just that Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose:
blatantly to assert power over truth itself.”  {blog 6/2017}

oil baron J. Paul Getty [1892-1976]
Getty's Reminder: “The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.”   {blog 4/2015}

musician Stan Getz [1927-91]
“Music is my life at the expense of everything else in my life.”  {blog 1/2010}

internet activist Wael Ghonim
“The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.”  {blog 10/2018}

C.E.R.N. physicist Fabiola Gianotti
“The Higgs boson [particle] has two functions: One is to give mass to the Universe. The other is
to prevent the standard model from going bananas.”  {blog 8/2012}

Robin Gibb [1949-2012], co-founder of the Bee Gees band
“An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.”   {blog 6/2012}

British historian Edward Gibbon [1737-94]
“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.”  {blog 6/2016}

filmmaker Jeff Gibbs
“The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete.”  {blog 5/2020}

Kahlil Gibran [1883-1931]
• • “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”  {blog 12/2010}
• • “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
- in "The Prophet", 1923  {blog 12/2015}
• • “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”  {blog 4/2018}
• • “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one - people ruin beautiful things.”  {blog 10/2018}

William Gibson
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”  {blog 6/2009}

Nobel-laureate André Gide [1869-1951] of France
• • “People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”  {Issue #48}
• • “The color of truth is gray.”  {blog 12/2008}
• • “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening,
everything must be said again.”  {blog 3/2011}
• • “Believe those who search for truth. Doubt those who claim to have found it.”   {blog 4/2012}
• • “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”  {blog 4/2018}
• • “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”  {blog 8/2018}

Elizabeth Gilbert
“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”  {blog 10/2015}

Nobel-laureate Walter Gilbert
“The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.”  {blog 5/2020}

British travel writer A.A. Gill [1954-2016]
“America is Europe’s finest invention.” - in his spectacular 2013 essay “America The Marvelous”  {blog 7/2024}

comedian Jim Gilligan
“Most of the time, I feel entirely unqualified to be a parent. I call these times being awake.”  {blog 9/2015}

mystery author Dorothy Gilman [1923-2012]
“[W]e are waves whose stillness is non-being. We are alive because of this, [thus] we have no rest.”  {blog 7/2016}

John Gilmore
“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”  {blog 4/2015}

Dave Gilson
“The entire United States [is] a giant debtors colony, one nation in the red,
subject to compound interest, indentured to Citibank.”  {Issue #68}

beat poet Allen Ginsberg [1926-97]
• • “A secret is something [that] you can only tell one person – at a time.”   {blog 1/2013}
• • “follow your inner moonlight / don't hide the madness”  {blog 4/2014}

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself.
When Government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”  {blog 6/2019}

Joseph Samuel 'Joe' Girard
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.”  {blog 11/2014}

French theorist René Girard [1923-2015]
“When the whole world is globalized, you’re going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.”  {blog 12/2024}

George Gissing [1857-1903]
“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”  {blog 8/2019}

American lawyer & politician Rudolph W. 'Rudy' Giuliani of New York City
“Truth is relative. They [Robert Mueller's team] may have a different version of the truth than we do.”  {blog 5/2018}

William E. Gladstone [1809-98]
• • “All the world over I'll back the masses against the classes.”  {blog 9/2009}
• • “Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” - in 1866   {blog 10/2015}

half-Jamaican author Malcolm Gladwell
• • “Somebody always has to be the n*gger.”  {blog 12/2009}
• • “The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.”  {blog 3/2015}

Southern writer Ellen Glasgow [1873-1945]
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”  {blog 7/2016}

Arnold H. Glasow [1905-98]
• • “In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.”  {blog 9/2016}
• • “The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”  {blog 2/2018}

astronaut-politician John Glenn [1921-2016]
• • “Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run.”
- testifying before Congress 26 February 1962  {blog 2/2009}
• • “As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind . . . every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.”  {blog 10/2017}

actor Donald Glover
“Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”  {blog 3/2018}

Marc Gobé
“We live in a society where everybody feels guilty.”  {Issue #45}

cinema auteur Jean-Luc Godard of France
• • “I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”  {blog 5/2008}
• • “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end . . . but not necessarily in that order.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”  {blog 6/2009}
• • “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”  {blog 6/2009}
• • “There is no opposite of an idea. So an idea goes everywhere.”  {blog 7/2015}
• • “Those lacking imagination take refuge in reality.”  {blog 7/2015}
• • “Our task is no longer to make political films, but to make films politically.” - in April 1970  {blog 6/2017}
• • “[Los Angeles] is a big garage.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “Cinema begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”  {blog 9/2017}
• • “[Robert] Bresson is to French cinema what Mozart is to German music and Dostoyevsky is to Russian literature.”  {blog 11/2017}
• • “All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.”  {blog 12/2017}
• • “Politics is like shoes. There's a left and a right, but eventually you will want to go barefoot.”  {blog 8/2019}

Bob Goddard
“The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man.”  {blog 12/2019}

rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard [1882-1945]
• • “It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments . . . [Most] work that is finally successful
is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.”  {blog 12/2019}
• • “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”  {blog 5/2020}
• • “Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.”  {blog 2/2021}
• • “The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.”  {blog 10/2021}
• • “The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.”  {blog 12/2024}

Joseph Goebbels [1897-1945], Nazi Propaganda Minister, 1933-45
• • “The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always
be essentially simple and repetitious.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne
in mind constantly . . . It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it.”  {blog 6/2018}

{Johann Wolfgang von} Goethe [1749-1832]
Goethe Quotations Page at Working Minds

[Ms.] Ray Goforth
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try
and those who are afraid [that] you will succeed.”  {blog 10/2017}

astrophysicist Dr. Thomas Gold [1920-2004]
“It's like religion. Heresy [in science] is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite.”  {blog 1/2017}

entertainer Whoopi Goldberg
“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”  {blog 12/2015}

Arthur Golden
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It . . . tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see
ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.” - in the 1997 novel "Memoirs of A Geisha"  {blog 11/2016}

anarchist Emma Goldman [1869-1940]
• • “If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution.”  {Issue #63}
• • “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”  {Issue #67}
• • “Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty.”  {blog 11/2020}
• • “Great art has always gone to the masses, to their hopes and dreams, for that spark that kindled their souls. The rest, 'the many, all too many'
as Nietzsche called mediocrity, have been mere commodities that can be bought with money, cheap glory, or social position.”  {blog 4/2024}

William Goldman
“Life is not fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”  {blog 6/2012}

Oliver Goldsmith [1728-74]
“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”  {blog 2/2011}

writer David Goldstein
“Yes, our regulatory agencies are incompetent. But they are incompetent by design.”   {blog 4/2010}

Richard Goldstein
“Sadism is the hallmark of conservative culture.”  {Issue #67}

Sen. Barry Goldwater [1909-98]
• • “But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly.”  {blog 5/2015}
• • “Our nation is facing a crisis of liberty if we do not control campaign expenditures. We must prove that elective office is not for sale. We must convince
the public that elected officials are what James Madison intended us to be, agents of the sovereign people, not the hired hands of rich givers.”  {blog 8/2015}

movie producer Samuel Goldwyn [1879-1974]
• • “I was always an independent, even when I had partners.”  {blog 10/2008}
• • “I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.”  {blog 12/2015}

labor leader Samuel Gompers [1850-1924]
“What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and
less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more . . . opportunities to cultivate
our better natures.”  {blog 1/2013}

Gerald Good
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”   {blog 6/2015}

primatologist Dame Jane Goodall
• • “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” (Time Magazine, August 2002)  {Issue #29}
• • “Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something
[that] you don't believe is right.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference do you want to make.”  {blog 10/2016}
• • “Having respect for animals makes us better humans.”  {blog 11/2017}
• • “Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.”  {blog 1/2018}

columnist Ellen Goodman
“The things [that] we hate about ourselves aren't more real than the things
[that] we like about ourselves.”   {blog 7/2012}

Roy Goodman
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”  {blog 11/2015}

Charles Goodnight [1836-1929]
“Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.”  {blog 8/2008}

Archie Goodwin character, written by Rex Stout [1886-1975]
• • “I love to do a good job more than anything else [that] I can think of.”  {Issue #62}
• • “All's fair in love and business.”  {blog 11/2007}

Adam Gopnik
• • “There is a constant struggle between the spirit of free inquiry and the spirit
of fundamentalist dogma.”  {blog 6/2009}
• • “In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader
and condition: Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher In The Rye.”,
in The New Yorker, February 2010  {blog 2/2010}
• • “For [Adam] Smith, the market moves toward monopoly; it is the job of the philosopher to define,
and of the sovereign state to restore, fair play.” (in 2010)  {blog 11/2010}
• • “The strongest argument for religion is not that it is in touch with God but that it puts us in touch
with one another.”  {blog 7/2011}
• • “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country
today – perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850.”  {blog 2/2012}

Nadine Gordimer
“Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”  {blog 4/2011}

Al Gore, Jr.
• • “[The Bush] administration has taken a wrecking ball to the very foundations
of our democracy.” (August 2007)  {blog 10/2007}
• • “The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
We have to ask ourselves 'What is going on here?'.”  {blog 12/2007}

Gen. William Crawford Gorgas [1854-1920]
“In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature
are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.”- in his book "Sanitation In Panama" [1915]  {blog 11/2020}

Russian writer Maxim Gorky [1868-1936]
• • “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them,
and how to express them in a convincing form.”  {blog 4/2014}

Pastor Mark Gorman of Metairie, Louisiana
“Leaders live by choice, not by accident.”  {blog 4/2024}

Vivian Gornick
“I think [that] in literature the writer must be a radical. The insight that guides the work must go the limit
of felt thought, and then beyond.”  {blog 2/2017}

John Gottman
“Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.”  {blog 9/2014}

Joe Gould
“Only the artist is free because he is of single purpose. He knows what he wants
and wants only that and that frightens people.”  {Issue #24}

David Graber
“The yawning chasm between the very rich and everybody else
is making [America] a plutocratic caricature of democracy.”  {Issue #67}

mystery author Sue Grafton [1940-2017]
• • “Let's be optimistic. It doesn't cost anything.”  {Issue #42}
• • “If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.”  {blog 1/2018}

Bette Nesmith Graham [1924-1980], inventor of Liquid Paper™
“Anyone who is making progress faces fear. Overcoming fear is all there is to success.”  {Issue #36}

Gordon Graham
“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears
and leaves ragged edges behind it.”   {blog 1/2014}

newpaper publisher Katharine Graham [1917-2001]
• • “A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”  {blog 8/2012}
• • “Most people go thru life without ever discovering the existence of that whole field of endeavor
which we describe as second wind.”  {blog 11/2015}

American choreographer Martha Graham [1894-1991]
• • “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated thru you into action, and
because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”  {blog 2/2016}
• • “No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction, a blessed unrest
that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”  {blog 4/2018}

Italian neo-Marxist Antonio Gramsci [1891-1937]
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”  {blog 2/2018 & 12/2019}

popular science writer Adam M. Grant
“If you're an asshole, you're not a success.”  {blog 11/2022}

Dianne Grant
“It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”  {blog 10/2022}

Grateful Dead band
“It's even worse than it appears / But . . . that's all ri-i-ight.” (song lyric)  {Issue #53}

Dr. Clare W. Graves [1914-86]
“The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination
of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.”  {blog 8/2023}

poet Robert Graves [1895-1985]
“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money.”  {blog 11/2008}

Allan Mcleod Gray [1905-75]
“Whatever you do, you'll regret it.”  {blog 12/2007}

Dwight Gray
“In Moscow Mitch's world, anything to the left of hunting the poor for sport is 'full bore socialism.” - on Facebook 6/2021  {blog 7/2021}

Farrah Gray
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”  {blog 8/2013}

John Gray
“The luxury of doing good surpasses every personal enjoyment.”  {blog 7/2012}

Kevin Alexander Gray
• • “If this is a recession in the general economy, then it is a depression
in the black community.” (2007)  {blog 2/2008}
• • “We don't want equal injustice for all.”  {blog 2/2016 & 2/2017}

Thomas Gray [1716-71]
“Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.”  {blog 3/2012}

'The Great American Read' series on PBS
“It's not hoarding if it's books.”  {blog 7/2018}

Andrew M. Greeley [1928-2013]
“Trivial people . . . lack an overriding hunger to do that which they do best.
Their ambitions are stylistic rather than substantial.”  {Issue #43}

Horace Greeley [1811-72]
• • “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.”  {blog 3/2012 & 2/2021}
• • “The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”  {blog 7/2016}

'green elephant' of Canada
“How can [our] society that is so undemocratic claim to be a model of democracy for others?”
in a comment on Internet Movie Database   {blog 2/2012}

rapper CeeLo Green
“Crime is art for lazy people.”  {blog 11/2013}

John Green
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”  {blog 7/2015 & 2/2017}

podcaster William Henry 'Hank' Green II
“Don't forget to be awesome.”  {blog 12/2023}

Sidney Greenberg [1917-2003]
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”  {blog 2/2017}

Graham Greene [1904-91]
• • “One must take a stand. If one is to remain human.”  {Issue #48}
• • “Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”  {blog 3/2008}
• • “It is impossible to go thru life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”  {blog 1/2012}

   Cong. Marjorie Taylor Greene [QAnon GA-14]
“I got to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized [January 6th], we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”
- speaking in December 2022 to the New York Young Republican Club about the events of January 6th  {blog 1/2023}

Vivian Greene
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”  {blog 5/2012 & 10/2015}

Stephen Greenleaf
“These days you don't run into all that many people who make use of a moral compass.”  {blog 12/2009}

Ben Greenman
“Hopelessness springs eternal.”  {blog 5/2010}

Alan Greenspan
former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, 1987-2006
• • “Capital doesn't pay any taxes, only people pay taxes. What happens is, you impose taxes on
organizations which then deflect them elsewhere. But at the end of the day,
all taxes are paid by people.” (testimony before Congress 21 May 2003)  {Issues #42 & #54}
• • “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably
misunderstood what I've said.”  {blog 1/2008}
• • “Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way
of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights." (in 1966)  {blog 10/2009}
• • “Rules cannot take the place of character.”  {blog 8/2013}

journalist Glenn Greenwald
“Leaks are illegal and hated by those in power (and their followers) precisely because political officials want to be able to lie
to the public with impunity and without detection.”  {blog 6/2017}

Germaine Greer
“If a woman never lets herself go, how will she know how far she might have got?”  {blog 7/2013}

Dr. Michael Greger, author of "How To Survive A Pandemic" [8/2020]
“It’s better to be six feet apart than six feet under.”  {blog 11/2020}

comedian-activist Dick Gregory [1932-2017]
“I wouldn't mind paying taxes . . . if I knew [that] they were going to a friendly country.”  {blog 4/2016}

Wayne Gretzky
“You miss 100 percent of the shots [that] you don't take.”  {Issue #57 & blog 10/2021}

Western author Zane Grey [1872-1939]
• • “Life ain't no fiesta.”  {Issue #23}
• • “It's a hell of a life, if you don't weaken.”  {Issue #33}
• • “Progress is great, but nature undespoiled is greater.”  {Issue #36}

David Ray Griffin
“We have each other and we have the truth.”  {blog 1/2010}

Grinch character, as written by Dr. Seuss
“It's never too early to be annoyed by Christmas.”  {blog 2/2019 & 5/2020}

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
“New Mexico is a reproductive safe haven state – and it will remain that way as long as I am Governor.”  {blog 7/2022}

cartoonist Matt Groening
“Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.”  {blog 4/2018}

Lev Grossman
• • “Trashy books are as hard to write as good ones.”  {blog 7/2008}
• • “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”  {blog 5/2018}

Matthew Keith Groves
• • “Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.”  {blog 2/2017}
• • “Replace the word 'problem' with the word 'opportunity' in all your thoughts.”  {blog 3/2017}

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara [1928-67]
“Silence is argument carried on by other means.”  {blog 5/2013}

Judge Murray Gurfein [1907-79]
“A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values
of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.” - Pentagon Papers decision, 17 June 1971  {blog 8/2019}

French writer Sacha Guitry [1885-1997]
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”  {blog 10/2010}

comedian Gary Gulman
“Coffee is the beverage that makes life tolerable.”  {blog 12/2024}

Chinese-British novelist Xiaolu Guo
“It is important to be comfortable with uncertainty.”  {blog 5/2022}

David Guterson
“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close.
If we love each other we’re safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.” - in the 1994 novel "Snow Falling On Cedars"  {blog 11/2016}

A.B. Guthrie, Jr. [1901-91]
“If literature is to have any dignity, it must enlighten life.”  {Issue #34}

folksinger Arlo Guthrie
“Some of the stuff going on in the world is only there to put a smile on your face, there's no other reasonable explanation for it.” - in 2010  {blog 3/2020}

folksinger-activist Woody Guthrie [1912-67]
about his 1944 song 'This Land Is Your Land': “This song is copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and
anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it.
Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.”  {blog 1/2014}
• • “A song that don't say somethin' ain't worth nothin'.”  {blog 7/2016}
• • “I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down
at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I ain't gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.”  {blog 9/2017}

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
• • “The best relationship is one where your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”  {blog 6/2008}
• • “Man . . . lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”  {blog 4/2015}
• • “When you talk, you are only repeating what you know; but when you listen, you learn something new.”  {blog 6/2015}
• • “I believe that the only true religion consists of having a good heart.”  {blog 11/2017}
• • “We cannot and need not eradicate our ego; rather, we must make sure [that] it is a serving ego and not a deserving ego.”  {blog 12/2018}
• • “Sleep is the best meditation.”  {blog 11/2022}
• • “Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.”  {blog 8/2023}

Wayne H.
“The shortest distance between two points is usually under construction.”  {Issue #62}

Deb Haaland of New Mexico
elected to Congress for New Mexico CD1 in 2018, appointed Secretary of The Interior in 2021
• • “Anybody who’s denying climate change is really in the dark.”  {blog 12/2017}
• • “This Administration is out of control.”  {blog 3/2020}
• • “Republicans don't believe in science.”- on Twitter in October 2020  {blog 7/2021}

Micah S. Hackler
“Education is only half the battle against poverty. The other half is opportunity.”  {Issue #48}

G.O.P. Senator Chuck Hagel
“[President Bush] says [that] he is not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true.
You can impeach him.” (in 2007)  {Issue #71}

Merle Haggard
“Where's all the freedom / that we're fighting for?” (song lyric)  {Issue #68}

Edward Everett Hale [1822-1909]
“I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do
interfere with what I can do.”  {blog 4/2008 version}
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”  {better version, blog 11/2015}

employment baron Robert Half [1919?-2001]
“Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.”  {blog 8/2012}

novelist Lisa Halliday
“It is human nature to try to impose order and form on even the most defiantly chaotic and amorphous stuff of life . . .
Some of us wage war. Others write books.”  {blog 12/2018}

author Timothy Hallinan
“We live well, in the West; belief in a non-existent black-and-white morality is one of our luxuries.”  {blog 6/2015}

Alexander Hamilton [1757-1804]
• • “In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."
- in 'Federalist Paper 79'  {blog 10/2009 & 1/2018}
• • “Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”  {blog 5/2017}
• • “At times like these in which we live, it will not do to be overscrupulous.” - in 1800  {blog 6/2017}

syndicated comedian Argus Hamilton
• • “Class is very simple in America. You're in the upper class if your name is on the building; you're in the middle class
if your name is on your desk; and you're in the working class if your name is on your shirt.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “It's ironic how in America the colors red, white, and blue represent freedom until they're flashing behind you.”  {blog 8/2014}
• • “Americans owe Donald Trump a great debt for taking politics and raising it to the level of professional wrestling.”  {blog 11/2015}
• • “George Washington is my favorite president because he's the only one who didn't blame all his problems on the previous administration.”  {blog 5/2016}
• • “'Just be yourself' is the worst advice [that] you can give some people.”  {blog 5/2018}

oil baron Armand Hammer [1898-1990]
“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”  {blog 2/2014}

data scientist Jeff Hammerbacher
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”  {blog 6/2016}

Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]
• • “Nothing lasts. You can't count on anything but yourself.”  {Issue #36}
• • “People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s
not true. You’re always better off living.”  {blog 5/2013}
• • “I found [that] I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover [that] you have style.”  {blog 2/2016}

Jenny Han
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”  - in "The Summer I Turned Pretty", 2009  {blog 4/2016}

Teresa Hanafin, Boston Globe staff writer
• • “This feels like a turning point in our country: When there are no repercussions for racism, what's next?”  {blog 8/2019}
• • “Trump is making America hate again . . . this is Trumpville, where the truth goes to die.”  {blog 8/2019}
• • “Another day, another shooting in the U.S.”  {blog 12/2019}
• • “The federal budget deficit will hit $1.02 trillion this year, and it's shameful that the next Democratic president
let this happen.” {sarcasm 1/2020}  {blog 3/2020}
• • “If I start to hear of chocolate shortages, I have no problem hoarding.”  {blog 3/2020}
• • “Republican derangement over the vaccines is killing hundreds of Americans every day – Americans who could easily
still be alive.”  {blog 7/2021}
• • “The G.O.P. never let the facts get in the way of bad policy.”  {blog 11/2022}
• • “The question of justice will be front and center next year.”  {blog 1/2023}
• • “The GOP's descent into fascism, led by Trump, is not [amusing]. There should be a big red flashing light and clanging bells
going off in the brains of every right-thinking American. Our country is in real danger, and there's less than a year left
to marshal democratic forces to save it.”  {blog 12/2023}
• • “Does anybody else think it's significant that 49 percent of the Republican voters who attended the Iowa caucuses
voted for someone other than Trump?”  {blog 4/2024}

Judge Learned Hand [1872-1961]
• • “The only country which any man has a right to love is one where there is balanced judgment,
justice founded on wisdom, a free spirit, and a temperate mind.”  {blog 2/2008}
• • “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”  {blog 8/2016}
• • “There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.”  {blog 5/2017}
• • “I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are
false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there,
no constitution, no law, no court can save it.”  {blog 2/2018}

humorist Jack Handey
• • “The face of a child can say it all. Especially the mouth part of the face.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery
and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think,
'It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver'.”  {blog 12/2024}

Austrian film director Michael Haneke
“If you look at the suffering around you, you can't be happy.”  {blog 12/2009}

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh [1926-2022]
• • “To love without knowing how to love wounds the person [that] we love.”  {blog 3/2016}
• • “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”  {blog 11/2017}
• • “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”  {blog 4/2024}

actor Tom Hanks
“I understand the concept of optimism, but I think [that] with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.”  {blog 2/2016}

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari of Israel
“The historical record makes homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.”  {blog 7/2015}

Edgar Yipsel 'Yip' Harburg [1896-1981]
“The truth is so top secret / It only stands to reason / That anyone exposing it / Is culpable of treason”
— 1960s song lyric  {blog 9/2013}

Warren G. Harding [1865-1923]
Ohio State Senator, 1899-1902; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1904-1906; United States Senator from Ohio, 1915-1921;
29th President of the United States, January 1921 to August 1923
“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”  {blog 12/2015}

English author Thomas Hardy [1840-1928]
“The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur
underlying the sorriest things.”   {blog 2/2014}

Tom Harkin, former U.S. Senator [D-Iowa 1985-2014]
• • “All you ever needed to know about this [2000] election, you’ve learned from driving. If you want to go backward,
you put it in R. But if you want to go forward, you put it in D.”  {blog 5/2015}
• • “The first rule in politics is never defend. Always attack.”  {blog 7/2015}

Richard G. Harms of Issaquah, Washington
“The basic problem in the world today is that there is too much religion
and not enough common sense.”  {Issue #46}

F.A. Harper
“The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.”  {Issue #25}

Brian J. Harris
“Democrats get angry when officials commit treason, Democrats hate fascism, Republitards love both.”  {blog 3/2023}

Davontae Harris
“We’re not asking you to shoot them like you shoot us, we’re asking you to NOT shoot us like you don’t shoot them . . .” - on Twitter  {blog 2/2021}

Joel Chandler Harris [1848-1908], author of the Uncle Remus stories
“Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper – that is what is called good writing.”  {blog 7/2016}

Kamala Harris
U.S. Senator from California, 2017-2021; U.S. Vice President, 2021-2025
• • “I reject the false choice that you can either have a strong economy or a strong environment. We can do both.”  {blog 5/2018}
• • “The government should be in the business of keeping families together, not tearing them apart.”  {blog 12/2018}
• • “[Afro-American] blood stains the sidewalks of America.”  {blog 11/2020}
• • “If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it
is prevention first.”  {blog 11/2020}

Sam Harris
“Reason is the only way of talking about a problem that is universal.”  {blog 12/2018}

Chicago columnist Sydney J. Harris [1917-86]
• • “Regret for the things [that] we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things [that] we did not do that is inconsolable.”  {Issue #40}
• • “A loser says that's the way [that] it's always been done. A winner says [that] there ought to be a better way.”  {blog 7/2013}
• • “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”  {blog 11/2015}
• • “Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”  {blog 5/2017}
• • “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts:
to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.”  {blog 3/2020}
• • “Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.”  {blog 3/2020}

music legend George Harrison [1943-2001]
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now.
We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”  {blog 8/2018}

Jamie Harrison
“Mental illness takes so many forms.”  {Issue #50}

author Jim Harrison [1937-2016]
• • “It only gradually occurred to me that our wounds are far less unique than our cures.”  {blog 1/2018}
• • “The danger of civilization, / of course, is that you will / piss away your life / on nonsense.”  {blog 1/2023}

British actor Rex Harrison [1908-90]
“Exhilaration is that feeling [that] you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what's wrong with it.”  {blog 4/2012}

Viki Harrison
“The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission . . . continued its drive
to give Americans a government of, by, and for big money.”  {blog 4/2014}

William Henry Harrison [1773-1841]
9th President of the United States, March-April 1841
“I believe . . . that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making
the rich richer and the poor poorer.” - on 10 October 1840  {blog 3/2010}

cartoonist Johnny Hart [1931-2007]
“It takes brains to understand a smart remark, but none to be offended by it.”  {Issue #71}

German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann [1882-1950]
“The tragedy of man is that of somebody who is starving and sitting at a richly laden table but does not reach out with his hand,
because he cannot see what is right in front of him. For the real world has inexhaustible splendour, the real life is full of meaning
and abundance, where we grasp it, it is full of miracles and glory.”  {blog 2/2014}

radio talk show host Thom Hartmann
• • “America is melting down.”  {Issue #70}
• • “Voluntary simplicity is a high value.”  {blog 11/2007}
• • “John Edwards is the candidate that corporate America is most afraid of.”  {blog 12/2007}
• • “Occupy something!”  {blog 9/2012}

Thom Hartnett
“One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent.”  {blog 12/2011}

Harvard Business School
“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that this impact lasts in your absence.”  {blog 9/2017}

Paul Harvey [1918-2009]
“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.”  {blog 10/2009}

Sam Haskell, TV department head at William Morris Agency
“Your primary power is your character and your integrity.”  {blog 1/2014}

Henry S. Haskins [1875–1957]
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny little matters compared to what lies within us.”
— NOT Emerson or Thoreau  {blog 11/2015}

poet Robert Hass
“Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.”  {blog 8/2014}

Reed Hastings, chair/CEO of Netflix, Inc.
“Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.”  {blog 7/2017}

Pete Hautman
“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas.”  {blog 2/2017}

Václav Havel [1936-2011]
• • “Work unswervingly to do something [that] you want in your local sphere.”  {Issue #62}
• • “The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of life, but that it bothers him less and less.”  {blog 9/2015}

eco-activist Paul Hawken
“We are moving from a world created by privilege to a world created by community . . . Global themes
are emerging in response to cascading ecological crises and human suffering.”  {blog 12/2011}

physicist Stephen W. Hawking [1942-2018]
• • “There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time . . . The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE . . . What place, then, for a creator?”  {Issue #26}
• • “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers.
That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”  {blog 6/2011}
• • “One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”  {blog 2/2014}
• • “So far, the trend seems to be toward . . . most people ending up miserably poor [as] the machine-owners successfully lobby against
wealth redistribution . . . with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.” - paraphrase from Hawking interview, 2015  {blog 10/2015}
• • “The universe [simply] came into existence all by itself.”  {blog 2/2017}
• • “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”  {blog 9/2017}
• • “One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary.”  {blog 3/2018}
• • “There may be ultimate answers but . . . I would be sorry if we were to find them . . . I would like very much to find them, but their discovery
would leave nothing for those coming after me to seek. Each generation builds on the advances of the previous generation, and this is as it should be.
As human beings, we need the quest.”  {blog 3/2018}
• • “If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”  {blog 5/2018}
• • “We explore because we are human and we want to know.”  {blog 12/2018}
• • “Science is not only a discipline of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”   {blog 5/2020}

actress Goldie Hawn
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”  {blog 2/2014}

Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64]
• • “You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”  {blog 1/2012}
• • “A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”  {blog 2/2012}
• • “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”  {blog 3/2012}
• • “Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”  {blog 5/2012}
• • “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will
sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”  {blog 9/2012}

S.I. Hayakawa [1906-92]
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be
so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”  {Issue #36}

retired U.S.A.F. General Michael Hayden
“You're not just responsible for what you say. You are responsible for what people hear.”  {blog 11/2016}

Chris Hayes
“We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities.
The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.”  {blog 7/2012}

actress Helen Hayes [1900-93]
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”  {blog 7/2011}

composer Jason Hayes
“By your early forties, the best part about going to bed is imagining the coffee [that] you’re going to drink in the morning.”  {blog 5/2018}

Rutherford B. Hayes [1822-93]
19th President of the United States, 1877–81
“This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government
of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.” in his diary, March 1888  {blog 11/2009 & 10/2012}

Ohio football coach Wayne Woodrow 'Woody' Hayes [1913-87]
• • “Nothing cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”  {blog 12/2015}
• • “Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.”  {blog 1/2017}

Brian Hays
“There is only one way [that] you can fail, and that is to quit.”  {blog 1/2018}

Richard Hayter
“My own definition of success is when it's standing room only at your funeral.”  {blog 12/2017}

British critic William Hazlitt [1778-1830]
• • “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”  {Issue #43}
• • “It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration.”  {blog 5/2012}
• • “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference
between what things are, and what they ought to be.”  {blog 6/2015}
• • “Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.”  {blog 5/2016}
• • “The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;
and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”  {blog 11/2016}

mystery author Jeremiah Healy [1948-2014]
“Nobody’s civil to anybody anymore.”  {Issue #63}

radio commentator Gabriel Heatter [1890-1972]
“Life is never so bad at its worst that it is impossible to love;
life is never so good at its best that it is easy to live.”  {Issue #43}

Ben Hecht [1894-1964]
• • “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to
tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”  {blog 11/2011}
• • “Prejudice is the raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.”  {blog 12/2012}

Lisa Heckman
“In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories, and steps, be a rebel and count your blessings instead.”  {blog 5/2022}

comedian Mitch Hedberg [1968-2005]
“The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be
as good as a wall.”  {blog 8/2012}

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [1770-1831]
• • “What experience and history teach us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it.”   {blog 5/2013}
• • “Action is the clearest revelation of the individual, of his temperament as well as his aims – what a man is at bottom and in his
inmost being comes into actuality only by his action.”  — Hegel's 'famous dictum' in the posthumous "Aesthetics, Volume 1"  {blog 5/2017}

Martin Heidegger [1889-1976]
• • “The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that
we are still not thinking.”  {blog 9/2009}
• • “Language is the house of the truth of Being.”  {blog 10/2009}
• • “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”  {blog 10/2009}
• • “The possible ranks higher than the actual.”  {blog 11/2009}
• • “If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety
of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”  {blog 12/2009}
• • “Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact
language remains the master of Man.”  {blog 1/2010}
• • “Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”  {blog 2/2010}
• • “Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries,
is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.”  {blog 3/2010}
• • “The most important thing any teacher can teach a student is how to learn.”  {blog 12/2019}

violinist Jascha Heifetz [1901-87]
“No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side
that you wish were on the other side.”   {blog 8/2013}

economist Robert L. Heilbroner [1919-2005]
“The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government . . . rise
above the interests of one class alone.”  {Issue #49 & blog 2/2011}

Heinrich Heine [1797-1856]
• • “There are more fools in the world than there are people.”  {blog 9/2009}
• • “One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.”  {blog 10/2012}

sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
Robert A. Heinlein Quotations Page at Working Minds
Robert A. Heinlein Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Martin Heinrich
U.S. Congressman [Dem NM-01, 2009-2012], U.S Senator from New Mexico [since 2013; Dem]
• • “The time has come for us to stand up for the American people and to hold
the insurance companies accountable.”  {blog 4/2010}
• • “I will keep working until every [American] who wants to work has a job.” (on Labor Day 2011)  {blog 9/2011}
• • “Republicans in Congress . . . want us to trust the Russians and question the F.B.I. – it’s anti-American.”  {blog 2/2018}
• • “The fact is, climate disruption is real and the consequences in New Mexico and across the country are tremendous. We're seeing more extreme
drought conditions, larger wildfires, shrinking forests, and increased flooding. This is the reality happening right now. The longer we wait to act,
the more difficult and expensive the solutions become.” - in December 2017  {blog 3/2018}
• • “We should be draining the swamp and protecting public lands, not the other way around.”  {blog 8/2018}

Joseph Heller [1923-99]
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”  {blog 4/2013}

playwright Lillian Hellman [1905-84]
• • “It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.”  {blog 6/2011}
• • “People change and forget to tell each other.”  {blog 8/2017}
• • “Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.”  {blog 9/2017}
• • “No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.”  {blog 11/2017}
• • “Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”  {blog 1/2018}
• • “Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”  {blog 2/2018}
• • “Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.”  {blog 9/2018}
• • “Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”  {blog 5/2020}
• • “The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.”  {blog 7/2021}

Help STOP Truth Decay, on Facebook
“For 2 years [Trump] has been pushing hate, bigotry, and violence from his podium. It's way past time for this to STOP!”  {blog 10/2018}

author Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
Ernest Hemingway Quotations Page at Working Minds
Ernest Hemingway Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

David Hempy
“A firm grip on reality is not a critical component of happiness.”  {blog 6/2009}

John R. Henderson
“When in doubt, doubt.”  {blog 6/2012}

Rob Henderson, on substack
“[D]ating can be tedious. Sometimes you have to crush a lot of rocks to find a gem.”  {blog 7/2024}

novelist Susan Henderson
“You think [that] a life is built of dreams when, really, a life is made up of daily to-do lists.”  {blog 3/2020}

rock musician Don Henley
“Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.”  {blog 12/2013}

rock legend Jimi Hendrix [1942-70]
• • “When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”  {Issue #58}
• • “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”  {blog 4/2011 & 11/2011}

Patrick Henry [1736-99]
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it
but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”  {blog 8/2009}

puppeteer Jim Henson [1936-90]
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or
misinformed beholder a black eye.”  {blog 9/2013}

actress Audrey Hepburn [1929-93]
• • “Paris is always a good idea.”  {blog 1/2013}
• • “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”  {blog 3/2013}
• • “Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”  {blog 2/2014}
• • “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”  {blog 4/2014}

actress Katharine Hepburn [1907-2003]
• • “If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “If you survive long enough, you are revered, rather like an old building.”  {blog 3/2012}
• • “The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian,
married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.”  {blog 9/2013}

Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus [535?-475? BCE]
• • “You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.”  {blog 1/2014}
• • “The waking have one common world / But the sleeping turn aside / Each into a world of his own.”  {blog 7/2016}

Anne Herbert
• • “Practice random acts of kindness, and senseless acts of beauty.”  {Issues #1 & #39}
• • “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”  {blog 1/2011}

sci-fi author Frank Herbert [1920-86]
• • “The people [that] I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives
but have only one course of action.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.”  {blog 4/2012}
• • “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.” - in the novel "Dune" [1965]  {blog 2/2016}
• • “The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”  {blog 3/2016}
• • “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe
is always one step beyond logic.” - in the novel "Dune" [1965]  {blog 11/2016}

Oliver Herford [1863-1935]
“Jehovah has always seemed to me the most fascinating character in all fiction.”  {blog 2/2011}

Jeff Herman
“To lay blame is an abdication of power.”  {blog 9/2008}

Ancient Greek historian Herodotus [484-425 BCE]
“The worst pain [that] a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.”  {blog 11/2017}

Don Herold [1889-1966]
• • “Be kind to dumb people.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “Man is the only animal that plays poker.”  {blog 9/2011}
• • “I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been
supplanted by phonographs.”  {blog 2/2012}
• • “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to concieve.”  {blog 4/2012}
• • “Jesus was a bachelor.”  {blog 9/2012}
• • “Thought itself is probably a superstition.”  {blog 10/2012}

Mark Hertsgaard
“The battle to prevent global warming has been lost. Now the race to survive it has begun.”
(in The Nation Magazine, in 2006)  {Issue #68}

German cinema auteur Werner Herzog
“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read . . .
if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”   {blog 7/2015}

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel [1907-72]
• • “In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root cause of sin.”  {blog 10/2017}
• • “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”  {blog 1/2023}

Nobel-laureate Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]
• • “World history is nothing but an endless, dreary account of the rape of the weak by the strong . . . (It is) a race with time,
a scramble for profit, for power, for treasures.” - in the 1943 novel "The Glass Bead Game"  {blog 4/2012}
• • “The truth is lived, not taught.”  {blog 9/2012}
• • “The mind of man is beneficent and noble only when it obeys truth.” - in the 1943 novel "The Glass Bead Game"  {blog 2/2014}
• • “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”  {blog 9/2015}
• • “Only the weak are sent out on paths without perils.” – in the 1943 novel "The Glass Bead Game"  {blog 7/2016}
• • “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning
and transform it into something of value.”  {blog 5/2018}
• • “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business,
passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”  {blog 1/2023}

French patriot Stéphane Hessel [1917-2013]
• • “The worst possible outlook is indifference . . . Behaving like that deprives you of one of the essentials
of being human: the capacity and the freedom to be outraged.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “To create is to resist. To resist is to create.”  {blog 4/2011}

Charlton Heston [1923-2008]
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”  {blog 5/2013}

adventurer Thor Heyerdahl [1914-2002]
“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”  {blog 11/2011}

Florida author Carl Hiaasen
• • “Somebody's got to be angry or nothing gets fixed.”  {Issue #29}
• • “The American penal system functions essentially as a social septic tank,
and . . . nothing more lofty should be expected of it.”  {Issue #40}
• • “It's the best job in [journalism], chasing crooks in Florida, because the well never runs dry.”  {blog 7/2016}
• • “Life is a sh*t blizzard.”  {blog 5/2018}

Esther Hicks
“Find something that makes you happy. And think about it a lot.”  {blog 9/2017}

Leanna Renee Hieber
“Coffee first. Schemes later.”  {blog 9/2016}

George V. Higgins [1939-99]
“This life's hard, man, but it's harder if you're stupid.”  {blog 4/2009}

author Patricia Highsmith [1921-95]
• • “There is no moral to my life – I have none – except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.”  {Issue #36}
• • “One simply cannot concern oneself eight or even five hours a day with nonsense-taken-seriously and not be corrupted by it.
The corruption lies in the very habits of thought.”  {blog 3/2023}
• • “I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial, for neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done.”  {blog 7/2024}

Cullen Hightower [1923-2008]
“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.”  {blog 5/2012}

progressive activist Jim Hightower
• • “[Texas Gov.] Rick Perry puts the 'goober' back in gubernatorial.”  {blog 6/2017}
• • “It's time to state the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull goose bonkers. Its leaders have turned the G.O.P. brand
into an unprincipled gaggle of corporate profiteers, hatemongers, and screwball conspiracy theorists.”  {blog 7/2022}

W.F. Hightower, father of Jim Hightower
“Everyone does better when everyone does better.”  {blog 7/2011}

Napoleon Hill [1883-1970]
• • “Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”  {Issue #46}
• • “The man who does more than he is paid [for] will soon be paid for more than he does.”  {blog 12/2011}
• • “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”  {blog 9/2013}
• • “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”  {blog 4/2015}
• • “Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”  {blog 7/2016}
• • “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”  {blog 5/2017}
• • “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire
which transcends everything.”  {blog 6/2019}

mystery author Tony Hillerman [1925-2008]
“It takes a million dollars to beat the system, to pay your own ransom, to buy back your own life.”
in "Blessing Way", 1970  {blog 7/2010}

Burton Hills
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”  {blog 12/2007}

S.E. Hinton
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world.”
- in the 1967 novel "The Outsiders"  {blog 11/2016}

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates of Cos [c. 460 - c. 370 BCE]
• • “The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that made him sick.”  {blog 12/2018}

movie director Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
• • “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”  {blog 2/2009}
• • “Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.”  {blog 1/2011}
• • “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”  {blog 12/2011}
• • “A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission, and the babysitter were worth it.”  {blog 8/2013}
• • “Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”  {blog 1/2014}
• • “I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”  {blog 9/2014}

U.S.A.F. Col. Walter Hitchcock
“Freedom is not free.”  {blog 12/2013}

Christopher Hitchens [1949-2011]
“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans
are not selfish enough.”  {blog 10/2018}

Adolf Hitler [1889-1945]
• • “What luck for rulers that men do not think.”  {blog 2/2008}
• • “If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, then you must tell them the crudest
and most stupid things.” (in "Mein Kampf", 1925-26)  {blog 4/2011}
• • “Propaganda is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert.”  {blog 6/2016}
• • “We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.”
- on 27 October 1928  {blog 11/2017}
• • “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.”  {blog 5/2022}

counter-revolutionary philosopher Thomas Hobbes [1588-1679]
• • “Consequent to a time of War . . . the life of Man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
(in 'Leviathan', 1651)  {blog 10/2007}
• • “Desire and love are the same thing, save that by desire we always signify the absence of the object, by love,
most commonly the presence of it.”  {blog 7/2016}

fantasy author P.C. Hodgell
“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”  {blog 12/2023}

Tom Hodgkinson
“The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.”  {Issue #56}

labor leader James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa [1913-75]
“If we become too timid to fight for what is right and just, we will lose in the legislatures what we have won on the picket lines.”  {blog 10/2018}

longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer [1902-83]
Eric Hoffer Quotations Page at Working Minds

activist Abbie Hoffman [1936-89]
“Democracy is not something [that] you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something
[that] you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”  {blog 12/2007}

Jackie Hoffman
“Everything in this world is an opportunity for pain and failure.”  {blog 12/2007}

Douglas Hofstadter
Hofstadter's Law is "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.”  {blog 12/2023}
- in "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" [1979]

historian Richard Hofstadter [1916-70]
“It has been the fate of our nation not to have ideologies but to be one.”  {blog 11/2013}

Eric Holder
“Waterboarding is torture.” (testifying before Congress as U.S. Attorney General-designate
on 15 January 2009)  {blog 2/2009}

Max Holland
“The only thing more astounding than the [Bush] administration's staggering hubris
is the smugness of its ignorance.” (in The Washington Spectator)  {Issue #66}

François Hollande, President of France 2012-2017
“We have a single mission: to protect and hand [off] the planet to the next generation.”  {blog 5/2018}

U.S. Senator Ernest Hollings
“If {the U.S. Marines in Lebanon} have been put there to fight, there are far too few.
If they've been put there to be killed, there are far too many.” (1983)  {blog 2/2008}

Ernest Holmes [1887-1960]
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”  {blog 5/2015}

Dr. John Andrew Holmes [1904-62]
• • “It is well remembered that the entire universe, with one trifling exception,
is composed of others.” – circa 1927  {blog 6/2010}
• • “Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody
ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.”  {blog 8/2023}
• • “Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”
- in "Wisdom In Small Doses" [1941]  {blog 12/2023}

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1902-1932
• • “Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension.”  {Issue #38}
• • “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.”  {blog 7/2010}
• • “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”  {blog 5/2018}

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [1809-94]
• • “A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”  {blog 12/2008 & 7/2016}
• • “Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make
critics of the chips that were left.”  {blog 2/2011}
• • “Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.”  {blog 2/2011}
• • “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exception.”  {blog 3/2011}
• • “The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”  {blog 4/2012}
• • “The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.”  {blog 9/2012}
• • “Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready
to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”  {blog 8/2013}
• • “Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.”  {blog 9/2013}

Sherlock Holmes character, as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1859-1930]
• • “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains,
no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”  {Issues #43 & #70}
• • “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”  {Issue #69}
• • “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”  {Issue #69}
• • “Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed
into condoning your offences.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “Fear is wisdom in the face of danger. There's nothing to be ashamed of.” - in a 2016 BBC-TV movie  {blog 9/2016}

British novelist Tom Holt
“Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.”  {blog 4/2016}

Victoria Holt {real name Eleanor Hibbert} [1906-93]
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”  {blog 10/2010}

football coach Lou Holtz
• • “Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent
are glad [that] you have them.”  {blog 5/2010}
• • “The man who complains about the way [that] the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.”  {blog 1/2013}
• • “Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.”  {blog 3/2013}
• • “When all is said and done, more is said than done.”  {blog 3/2013}

boxing great Evander Holyfield
“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”  {blog 10/2021}

ancient Greek author/epic poet Homer [VIIIth Century BCE]
“Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”  {blog 5/2022}

President Herbert Hoover [1874-1964]
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”  {blog 11/2011}

J. Edgar Hoover [1895-1972]
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government
is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”  {Issue #69}

Bob Hope [1903-2003]
“You know [that] you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”  {blog 7/2012}

U.S. Navy Captain Grace Murray Hopper [1906-92]
“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”  {Issue #59}

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [65 B.C.E.-8 B.C.E.] known as Horace
“Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country,
if to ourselves we would live dear.”  {blog 4/2014}

Lena Horne [1917-2010]
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way [that] you carry it."

economist George Horwich
“The true engines of economic growth [are] human ingenuity and productivity.”  {blog 4/2011}

novelist Khaled Hosseini
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”  {blog 12/2023}

escape artist Harry Houdini [1874-1926]
• • “Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.”  {blog 11/2020}
• • “It is my wish that each and every one of you experiences a little bit of magic in your lives, every day.”  {blog 11/2020}
• • “Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.”  {blog 2/2021}
• • “I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.”  {blog 10/2021}

TV character Gregory House, MD
“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”  {blog 4/2017}

Margo Howard
“Acknowledging reality is a do-it-yourself project.”  {blog 5/2015}

Irish journalist Paul Howard
“The social contract between humans and dogs might be the best bit of business we have ever done.”  {blog 7/2021}

Robert E. Howard [1906-36], creator of Conan The Cimmerian
“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance.
And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.” (in "Beyond The Black River")  {blog 3/2010}

Sidney Howard [1891-1939]
“Half of knowing what you want is knowing what you have to give up to get it.”
{not Calvin Coolidge}  {blog 9/2009}

Willie Howard [1883-1949]
“Come the rewolution you will eat stromberries and cream - and like it!” - in his vaudeville act with Al Kelly [1896-1966]  {blog 12/2023}
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Ed Howdershelt
“There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.”  {blog 5/2010}

writer E.W. (Edgar Watson) Howe [1853-1937]
• • “If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”  {blog 8/2018}
• • “The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”  {blog 4/2024}

hockey great Gordie Howe [1928-2016]
• • “All pro athletes are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”  {blog 6/2016}
• • “To succeed, you've got to love what you're doing. If you don't love it, get out of the way for someone who does.”  {blog 7/2016}

William Dean Howells [1837-1920]
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”  {blog 9/2011}

Chinese author & lecturer Tehyi Hsieh [1884-1972]
• • “The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it [into].”  {blog 11/2011}
• • “Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.”  {blog 12/2011}

Elbert G. Hubbard [1856-1915]
Elbert G. Hubbard Quotations Page at Working Minds
Elbert G. Hubbard Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard [1868-1930]
• • “A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.”  {blog 6/2012}
• • “Fun is like life insurance. The older you get the more it costs.”  {blog 11/2012}

labor activist Dolores Huerta
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”  {blog 5/2018}

writer & activist (James Mercer) Langston Hughes [1902-67]
• • “Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”  {blog 3/2012}
• • I swear to the Lord / I still can't see / why Democracy means / everybody but me  {blog 3/2017}
• • “In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.”  {blog 6/2017}
• • “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”  {blog 9/2017}
• • “Democracy will not come Today, this year / Nor ever Through compromise and fear.”  {blog 11/2017}
• • “Life is for the living / Death is for the dead / Let life be like music / And death a note unsaid.”  {blog 2/2018}
• • “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”  {blog 8/2019}
• • “Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul — the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.”  {blog 5/2020}
• • “Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.”  {blog 2/2021}
• • “A dream deferred is a dream denied.”  {blog 12/2024}

art historian Robert Hughes [1938-2012]
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented
as a consolation prize.”  {blog 9/2012}

French author Victor Hugo [1802-85]
• • “The best religion is tolerance.”  {Issue #27}
• • “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”  {Issue #46}
• • “He who opens a school door closes a prison.”  {blog 10/2008 & 8/2011}
• • “Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”  {blog 9/2009}
• • “Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.”  {blog 6/2010}
• • “If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”  {blog 2/2011}
• • “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “A writer is a world trapped in a person.”  {blog 9/2014}
• • “Form to the sculptor is all and yet it is nothing. It is nothing without the spirit;
with the idea it is everything.”  {blog 7/2015}
• • “The paradise of the rich is made from the hell of the poor.”  {blog 11/2020}

Florida billionaire Wayne Huizenga [1937-2018]
“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”  {blog 12/2017}

Harold S. Hulbert
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.”  {blog 3/2008}

David Hume [1711-76]
• • “Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.”  {blog 8/2011}
• • “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”  {blog 10/2022}

author & critic James Gibbons Huneker [1857-1921]
“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”  {blog 4/2024}

Cheryl Hunter
“Don't calm down. It is perfectly alright to give a sh*t.”  {blog 5/2015}

Robert Hurley, of Stoddard Management
“Hedge funds are the sophisticated way to lose money, as opposed to the more mundane way[s].”  {blog 6/2008}

writer Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960]
• • “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”  {blog 1/2018}
• • “Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.”  {blog 12/2018}
• • “Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”  {blog 8/2019}

cinema auteur John Huston [1906-87]
“Substance separates film from movies.”  {blog 1/2014}

actor Walter Huston [1883-1950]
“Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.”  {blog 12/2013}

Robert Maynard Hutchins [1899-1977]
“Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.”  {blog 2/2011}

Aldous Leonard Huxley [1894-1963]
• • “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”  {Issue #27}
• • “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”  {Issues #43 & #54}
• • “The world is illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously, because it is real as far as it goes, and [real] in those
aspects of the reality which we are capable of comprehending. Our business is to wake up.”  {blog 4/2009}
• • “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain
other sets of people are human.”  {blog 4/2010 & 9/2014}
• • “We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”  {blog 2/2011}
• • “At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself
as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “Chastity [is] the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”  {blog 3/2012}
• • “The trouble with fiction . . . is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “Words can be like x-rays if you use them properly – they'll go thru anything. You read and you're pierced.”
- in 1932 novel "Brave New World"  {blog 8/2015}
• • “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”  {blog 4/2017}
• • “It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has
no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder'.”  {blog 5/2017}
• • “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is one of the most important of all the lessons
that history has to teach.”  {blog 7/2018}
• • “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”  {blog 2/2019}
• • “The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.”
possibly first said by his grandfather, repeated by Aldous  {blog 10/2022}
• • “Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.”  {blog 12/2023 & 12/2024}
• • “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of a child into old age. which means never losing your enthusiasm.”  {blog 4/2024}
• • “If the first half of the XXth Century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social
engineers – and the XXIst Century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific caste system, and 'Brave New World'.
The prophecies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would . . . The nightmare of total organization has
emerged from the safe, remote future and is now awaiting us, just around the next corner.” - in "Brave New World Revisited" (1958)  {blog 7/2024}

biologist Thomas Henry Huxley [1825-95]
• • “The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. Science is simply common sense
at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”  {blog 9/2013 & 8/2016}
• • “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”  {blog 5/2016}

Michael Hyatt
“Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.”  {blog 4/2014}

automobile executive Lee Iacocca [1924-2019]
“When an executive told me he was so busy he never took a vacation, I replied, 'You mean to tell me that you can handle
an $80 million project but can't manage to plan two weeks for some rest and rejuvenation?' ”  {blog 1/2023}

playwright Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906]
• • “The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.”
(from the 1882 play ‘An Enemy of The People’)  {Issues #63 & #67}
• • “You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
in "An Enemy of The People" (1882)  {blog 3/2010}
• • “It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”  {blog 2/2011}
• • “A forest bird never wants a cage.”  {blog 9/2014}

television journalist Gwen Ifill [1955-2016]
“We can't expect the world to get better by itself.”  {blog 3/2020}

Michael Ignatieff of Canada
“Our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.”  {blog 10/2016}

Russian political philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin [1883-1954]
• • “The fact of the matter is that fascism is a redemptive excess of patriotic arbitrariness.” - in 1927  {blog 7/2024}
• • “Politics is the art of identifying and neutralizing the enemy.” - in 1948  {blog 12/2024}

Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu
“Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.”  {blog 10/2017}

Gary Indiana
“[Jean-Paul] Sartre preferred reading serie noir crime novels to Marleau-Ponty,
and who could blame him?” (in Los Angeles Times Times Book Review)  {blog 4/2010}

theologian Wm. Ralph Inge [1860-1954]
• • “It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism
while wolves remain of a different opinion.”  {Issue #45}
• • “A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common
hatred of its neighbors.”   {blog 6/2011}
• • “The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.”  {blog 10/2011}

Robert Green Ingersoll [1833-99]
• • “In nature, there are no rewards or punishment, only consequences.”  {Issue #51 & blog 7/2012}
• • “Reason, observation, and experience [are] the holy trinity of science.”  {blog 2/2018}

novelist John Irving
“Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.”  {blog 7/2012}

Washington Irving [1783-1859]
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”  {blog 5/2009}

journalist & biographer Walter Isaacson
• • “The free flow of information is the oxygen of democracy.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “[Steve Jobs] revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music,
phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.”   {blog 10/2011}

Ivanhoe character, as written by Sir Walter Scott [1771-1832]
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”  {blog 12/2015}

journalist & columnist Molly Ivins [1944-2007]
• • “Don't let anyone ever tell you that it isn't enough just to tell the truth.”  {Issue #68}
• • “Alcohol may lead nowhere, but it sure is the scenic route.”  {blog 3/2012}
• • “Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant – it tends to get worse.”  {blog 8/2013}
• • “Vote, write, speak, work, march, sue, organize, fight, struggle – whatever it takes to secure the blessings of liberty.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”  {blog 4/2018}

British author Pico Iyer
• • “Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it's a necessity for anyone.”  {blog 4/2015}
• • “Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.” - in "The Art of Stillness", 2014  {blog 3/2016}

Andrew Jackson [1767–1845]
seventh President of The United States, 1829-37
• • “It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.” (in 1833)  {blog 6/2010}
• • “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”  {blog 1/2014}
• • “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”  {blog 8/2019}
• • “Never trust a person who doesn't drink beer.”  {blog 5/2022}

author Helen Hunt Jackson [1830-85]
“It is the weakness and danger of republics that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented
in their legislation.”  {blog 7/2013}

Rev. Jesse Jackson
• • “Keep hope alive; let nothing break your spirit.”  {Issue #64}
• • “Don't you walk away from that vote! People died for the right to vote!” in 1984 speech  {blog 2/2012}

Kanisha J. Jackson
“Time to hold Trump to the same standard we’re holding Bill Cosby.” - on Twitter  {blog 5/2018}

Robert H. Jackson [1892-1954]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1941-54
• • “There is no such thing as an achieved liberty; like electricity, there can be no substantial storage
and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.” (in 1953)  {blog 8/2009}
• • “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen
to keep the government from falling into error.”  {blog 4/2011}
• • “Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.”  {blog 3/2012}

novelist Shirley Jackson [1916-65]
“The reader is the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all [that] he has to do, after all,
is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless.”  {blog 9/2015}

Vineet Jain, managing director of Times of India
“We are not in the newspaper business, we are in the advertising business.”  {blog 12/2012}

Dresden James
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations,
[then] the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”  {blog 4/2010}

Henry James [1843-1916]
• • “The province of art is . . . all experience.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “One has to buy [immortality] with the blood of one's heart.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “Live all [that] you can; it is a mistake not to.”  {blog 9/2008}

Roman poet Juvenal [1st-2nd Century C.E.]
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards themselves?)” - from 'The Satires VI'  {blog 12/2019}

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