Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

I've noticed a terrible thing which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible how doomed the present is.

I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well so they're not funny. I end up saying 'Oh no I'm joking I'm joking.'