Taylor Caldwell
Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwellwas an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1900
CountryUnited States of America
men irony impulse
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
ideas looks world
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 doe labels
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
murder mankind adore
Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
people demand slavery
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.
rebel obscurity human-nature
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
children parenting dangerous-world
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
religious war differences
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.
freedom work rome
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.
citizens virtue rulers
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
wise men neighbor
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
betrayal animal betrayed
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
long up-to-you world
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.
family christmas night
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.