Thor Quotes

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.