Amos Elon Quotes

Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes it difficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.

Amos Elon

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• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Person

• I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Never
  • Four

• The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Control
  • Government

• I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Cat

• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Fear

• Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Gay

• In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Society
  • Free

• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Good
  • Baseball

• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Friend

• You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

  

  Diplo

• I can't tell anyone to vote.

  

  David A. Siegel

• Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• We are living in a culture where we are so led by the visual, and what is promoted in the media, that the attitude becomes, 'I don't have to go through normalcy in life - I can look for exemptions. And I expect them, and when I look for them and they are not there, I am angry.'

  

  Ben Harney
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Attitude

• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• The first president I met was L. B. J.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • President
  • First
  • Met

• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  

  Elizabeth Appell
  • Risk

• I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

  

  Nikolai II Aleksandrovich
  • Know
  • Ready
  • Ruling

• Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes it difficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.

  

  Amos Elon
  • War
  • Democracies
  • Victors