quotes about Pragmatism

“The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.”

“I really believe in the idea of the future.”

“A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.”

“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.”

Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “Heroes”, p.115, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged....”

“Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.75, Macmillan

“Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.”

“Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.”

“There is not a job Ive held in my career that was held by a woman before me.”

“A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.”