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Taylor Caldwell QUOTES

Taylor Caldwell QUOTES

1 " If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Dear and Glorious Physician

2 " The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. "

― Taylor Caldwell

3 " Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Dear and Glorious Physician

4 " I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist. "

― Taylor Caldwell

5 " Everyone living is doomed "

― Taylor Caldwell

6 " Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Captains and the Kings

7 " I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. "

― Taylor Caldwell

8 " We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Testimony of Two Men

9 " A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. "

― Taylor Caldwell , A Pillar of Iron

10 " . . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Dear and Glorious Physician

11 " But the people in the old country love their children. We have big families, and by the time a child is a year old he knows where he fits in the family and what he should do and what he shouldn't do. He knows his parents love him but that they're not going to stand for any nonsense and tantrums. So he is satisfied and feels safe. American children never feel safe." -The Listener "

― Taylor Caldwell , The Listener

12 " Um
dia, ele disse ao pequeno Marco que a semente da uva era a profecia da vinha,
das próprias uvas, e finalmente do vinho que daria prazer e alívio à alma,
inspirando-a com uma sabedoria além da que podería conhecer um homem
abstêmio e sóbrio. "

― Taylor Caldwell , A Pillar of Iron

13 " I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. "

― Taylor Caldwell

14 " You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love "

― Taylor Caldwell

15 " What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and debased, so craven and emasculated, that offers of government dole had become more important than their liberty and their humanity? Had they not know that power delegated to the government becomes the club of tyrants? They must have known. They had their own history to remember, and the history of five thousand years. Yet, they had willingly and knowingly, with all this knowledge, declared themselves unfit to manage their own affairs and had placed their lives, which belonged to God only, in the hands of sinister men who had long plotted to enslave them, by wars, by "directives," by "emergencies." In the name of the American people, the American people had been made captive. "

― Taylor Caldwell , The Devil's Advocate

16 " Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living... "

― Taylor Caldwell

17 " The world is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Captains and the Kings

18 " It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough. -- A Prologue to Love "

― Taylor Caldwell

19 " God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Dear and Glorious Physician

20 " The more wants a man has, the less freedom. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Dear and Glorious Physician