Best 21 quotes of Dagobert D. Runes on MyQuotes

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot. It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose.

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.