whim quotes

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

- (Matthew) Heywood Campbell Broun
  In NewYork World, 6 Feb.

The strangest whim has seized me† After all I think I will not hang myself today.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  'Ballade of Suicide'.

It is procedure that spells much of the difference between rule by law and rule by whim or caprice.

- (George) Norman Douglas
  Ruling to strike the  Joint  Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and two other organizations from the  Attorney General's list of subversive groups until final adjudication, 30  Apr.