E. B. White Quotes
One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.
E. B. White, writing to the editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 29, 1947
E. B. White, in “A Biography” by Scott Elledge, W. W. Norton & Company (January 17, 1986)
Urging a presidential veto of a tough ethics law prohibiting unethical behavior on the part of government officials:
Belafonte was on stage with Hugo Chavez, the autocratic president of Venezuela and a patent demagogue who constantly attacked Bush and the American government. Other than an entertainer who knows little about politics making an over the top attack on the president this quotation is ironic because he was at the time on the stage with and supporting one of the two most autocratic dictators of the Western Hemisphere—Hugo Chavez. In that context, the accusation was as absurd as it can get.
Referring to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms:
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office. She was commenting on recent attacks against minority Muslims by the majority Buddhists and one of the major reasons she claimed was the lack of trust in the Muslim community that had developed during the period of military dictatorship.
Elwyn Brooks White was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web came in first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels. In addition, he was a writer and contributing editor to The New Yorker magazine, and also a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style.
