16 quotes
Man’s ideas change, but not his inherent nature.
On Growing Up Tough (1970)
This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.
The Devil's Advocate (1952)
The ancient traditions entertain the possibility of the eventual remorse of the spirit of Evil and its reconciliation with God. Who is to say?
Dialouges with the Devil (1967)
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
The Devil's Advocate (1952)
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
From my early childhood Lucanus, or Luke, the great Apostle, has obsessed my mind.
This world’s brought me very little joy, very little satisfaction.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
The world is a terrible place, but it’s very interesting.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
Writing — I exist only for that. It’s the most important thing in my life.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
Learning … should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail. So its surroundings should be as gracious as possible, to complement it.
The Sound of Thunder (1957)
„…there will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities—until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a planned Marxist economy and total and meek enslavement— in the name of peace.”
To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. … No eunuch ever wrote a book.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
You’ve got to look at life clearly. No rose-colored glasses. The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s . . . The more I see of people, the more bitter I become.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
I don’t know how I’ve survived the onslaughts of the government. It almost makes me believe in the Deity. I’m a Catholic, but I’m a Catholic-atheist, because the tragedies in life have overwhelmed me.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
Honoria (1957)
Attacking another nation … acts as a sort of catharsis, temporarily, on men’s fear of their immediate neighbors. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.