Quotes from Taylor Caldwell

No hay nada más peligroso que un actor que no se dedica abiertamente a ser actor. Los tiranos más brillantes y malignos han sido estupendos charlatanes.

Tumultuarios! ¡Proscritos!

So long as we hold hatred for anyone," said Mr. Chisholm, marveling at his new thoughts, "we are not men at all. We are beasts. It is against the dignity of men that we should hate. It is against the ordinances of God.

Hay muchos que nacen mentalmente analfabetos y tienen un lugar en el mundo. Son como cuervos, cuyas lenguas sólo son capaces de escupir, que aprenden palabras sin saber su significado.

Nunca serás capaz de pensar mal de los que quieres. Sospecha de todos y nunca seas descuidado.

Todo hastía, excepto el saber. Todo se vuelve rancio y fatigoso si es cosa del cuerpo, pero lo que es de la mente y el espíritu nunca cesa de satisfacer, nunca deja saciado y exhausto.

Se dice que Dios ama la modestia de los hombres pero los humanos la desprecian.

feliz! No es la alegría de la infancia o la juventud, es la alegría de la madurez, la tranquilidad y la aceptación».

what was needed in any battle was not the wise and the thoughtful, but the unwary who would follow their leader to the death, like sheep if need be, without too much counting the cost or the cause.

Um dia, ele disse ao pequeno Marco que a semente da uva era a profecia da vinha, das próprias uvas, e finalmente do vinho que daria prazer e alívio à alma, inspirando-a com uma sabedoria além da que podería conhecer um homem abstêmio e sóbrio.

La vida es la más peligrosa de las experiencias, el mundo el más peligroso de los lugares y el hombre el más peligroso de los animales.

El mismo Dios había establecido los límites de las naciones y había creado las diferentes razas, por lo que ningún hombre debía intentar cambiarlos.

Even wars, if they ever again arise to degrade us, should not be an excuse for an attack upon the Constitution. When one law of a nation is broken with impunity the rest are rendered ineffectual.

Sócrates dijo que para que un hombre sea de valor para el mundo, ha de tener educación.

It is too late for lip service, the service of the Pharisee. God is deaf to such prayers. There must be an awakening in the hearts of man, true repentance, true penance. Not prayers that we be saved from the death of the body, but prayers that we be saved from the death of the spirit, which is hatred and lust and cruelty and materialism.

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. ~Taylor Caldwell

Mr. Lincoln too much, though I confess to despising him. He said that America will never be conquered from without but by the Vandals within. I fear he is only too right.

What is it that Aristotle said: 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' We have approached that day.

Yo jamás descanso –pensó Saulo–.

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

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

Were Cicero alive in the America of today he would be aghast and appalled. He would find it so familiar.

It does not even matter that the evil man does not fulfill his promises! The people do not care, do not remind him. It is enough that he is evil, and reflects themselves. The mobs are more comfortable in the climate of malignity than the climate of good, which embarrasses and discomfits them, for it is against their nature.

Todos los hombres son esclavos. Ellos lo han querido así. Solo Dios puede liberarlos. Él, que les dio la libertad en el nacimiento, aunque ellos hayan renunciado siempre a ella y siempre renuncien.