Edward Bernds quotes

“I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.”
-- Edward Bernds

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“You can't divide a business like a sack of apples.”
-- Edward Bernds

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“Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.”
-- Edward Bernds

Source : "Fictional character: Timmek, President of the Council". "World Without End", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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“But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.”
-- Edward Bernds

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“Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.”

“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”

“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”

“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”

“The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.”

“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”

“The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.”

“In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”