What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply with greater vision with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.