The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Robert Collier

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
Theodor Geisel

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden