I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
What are you grateful for right now? Gratitude can shift your energy, raise your vibration, and make all your next moments even better.