quotes about Joseph Mccarthy

“Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.”

“I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.”

“The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.7, e-artnow

“I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

“I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.”

“The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.”

“You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.”

“Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.”

“I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.”

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”