Pastoral Resources

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Repression will provoke rebellion.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.