Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. – Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker