quotes about Candid Camera

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.”

“A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.”

Source : John Gabriel Stedman (1813). “Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777:: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions, ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea”, p.396

“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”

“Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.”

“Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies- two ideas that on good days I believe wholeheartedly and on bad days I denounce as a bunch of bull.”

“When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.”

“He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”

Source : In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

“Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.”

“We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.”

Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186

“I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com