Taylor Caldwell Quotes

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

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.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

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.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

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.

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

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

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

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

I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

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

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

The world is a penal institution.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I converse with my dog through ESP

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

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

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

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.