#tended

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth. ↗

— David Cecil

#evil #faith #fanaticism #fundamentalism #good-intentions

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#epics #first #intended #literary #meant

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! ↗

— Amy Adams

#accused #been #being #bit #blonde

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #american #american foreign policy #consequences #died

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. ↗

— Woody Allen

#attended #disturbed #education #emotionally #had

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. ↗

— Woody Allen

#pedestal #place #tended #under #wife

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#because #extended #extended family #fabric #family

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. ↗

— David Antin

#casual #emphasize #i #sacred #secular

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is. ↗

— Christian Bale

#been #clearly #disrespectful #even #i