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Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.

Leo C. Rosten (1908-1997) Polish-American author and political scientist
(Attributed)

If you’re going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Leo C. Rosten (1908-1997) Polish-American author and political scientist
(Attributed)

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo C. Rosten (1908-1997) Polish-American author and political scientist
Captain Newman, M.D. (1962)
Sometimes attributed to Leo Buscaglia, who often quoted it.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be “happy.” I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Leo C. Rosten (1908-1997) Polish-American author and political scientist
Passions and Prejudices (1978)