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 08/09/17 :: UnknownSome asshole just farted in my pants. 08/09/17 :: Terry Pratchett (not verbatim)Build a man a fire--he'll be warm a night
Set a man on fire--he'll be warm for life  06/07/10 :: Clay ShirkyWell, organizations that are founded to solve problems end up committed to the preservation of the problems. So Trentway-Wagar, an Ontario-based bus company, sues PickupPal, an online ride-sharing service, because T-W isn’t committed to solving transportation problems. It’s committed to solving transportation problems with buses. In the media world, Britannica is now committed to making reference [...] 05/22/09 :: Dale HancheyA man with one watch knows what time it is, while a man with two isn't sure. 04/16/09 :: Dale HancheyA lot can be said for a solution that works. 12/15/08 :: Bertrand RussellEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. 08/29/08 :: Harry S TrumanWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 07/31/08 :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 04/24/08 :: Mahatma GandhiVictory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. 04/24/08 :: Mahatma GandhiFreedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. 03/15/08 :: Bertrand RussellThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. 03/10/08 :: George JacksonPatience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. 02/27/08 :: DaveOh, that's my problem: I inform people against their will! 02/26/08 :: Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess IrulanDo you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.  02/15/08 :: Frank MillerThe noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time. 02/11/08 :: G.K. ChestertonFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. 02/07/08 :: C.P. SnowWhen you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. 01/28/08 :: Hannah ArendtThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 01/18/08 :: Ben HechtTrying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. 01/17/08 :: Gurney HalleckI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick. 01/17/08 :: "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain." 12/29/07 :: British Ministry of InformationWhat is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed
to be the truth. A lie that is put across therefore becomes the truth and
may, therefore, be justified. The difficulty is to keep up lying... it is
simpler to tell the truth and if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one,
big thumping lie that will then be believed. 12/17/07 :: Mark TwainOne of the most striking differences between a
cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. 10/21/07 :: A. SpammerI think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...] 09/15/07 :: MC Hawking
ah, yuh
that's right
this one's for all the naysayers and dream-slayers
who told the Hawk-man it couldn't be done.
Listen up.
Your momma is so fat, she's got a trashbag for a sock.
She's so hairy she looks like she's got Don King in a headlock.
Your momma is so ugly that her dog won't give her fleas.
You could stick her face in dough and make monster cookies.
Your momma is so da [...] 09/08/07 :: Bertrand RussellIf a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. 06/12/07 :: Bertrand RussellThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. 06/05/07 :: Lee SimonsonAny event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. 05/20/07 :: Friedrich NietzscheThe most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. 04/26/07 :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 04/16/07 :: Napoleon BonaparteNever interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. 04/14/07 :: Ernest HemingwayHappiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. 03/15/07 :: O'RourkeWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. 02/25/07 :: Bertrand RussellMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. 02/25/07 :: Bertrand RussellThere is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. 02/10/07 :: Sir Francis BaconSilence is the virtue of fools. 11/20/06 :: Robert HeinleinOf course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. 11/08/06 :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 09/09/06 :: Dale HancheyFor every problem involving repetition, there are only three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. You usually code once for the middle, and call (Ed.: make a function call) for the beginning and end. 09/09/06 :: Dale HancheyNever solve a problem you can eliminate. 08/22/06 :: John Stuart MillIf mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. 08/09/06 :: Giovanni BoccaccioAlibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale.
Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began.
Gracious ladies, it may [...] 05/28/06 :: George Bernard ShawThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. 05/28/06 :: George Bernard ShawIf all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. 05/28/06 :: George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. 05/12/06 :: Patrick Henry [disputed]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! 05/12/06 :: Patrick Henry [disputed]I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death. 05/12/06 :: George Bernard ShawIn this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. 05/12/06 :: George Bernard ShawLiberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. 05/12/06 :: John F. KennedyLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 05/12/06 :: AristotleA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. 05/12/06 :: Victor HugoWhen dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. 05/12/06 :: Patrick HenryThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. 05/12/06 :: Patrick HenryGuard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. 05/12/06 :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 05/12/06 :: Woodrow WilsonLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 05/12/06 :: Samuel AdamsIf ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. 01/16/06 :: Jack VanceThese, then, were Srenki, men whose virtue was the excess of vice, who with leaden zest performed quintessential evil and so redeemed their fellows from turpitude. 11/23/05 :: Henry David ThoreauAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. 11/16/05 :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court JusticeThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. 10/07/05 :: Thomas JeffersonThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. 10/06/05 :: Winston ChurchillIf you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. 10/03/05 :: Aldous HuxleyThe propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. 10/03/05 :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 10/03/05 :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
10/02/05 :: Thomas JeffersonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.
09/30/05 :: Thomas JeffersonWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed. 09/30/05 :: Louis D. Brandeis, Justice, US Supreme Court JusticeFear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. 09/29/05 :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 09/29/05 :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 08/27/05 :: Mark TwainIf it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary. 08/15/05 :: R.S. Surtees (author)More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. 08/07/05 :: Albert EinsteinPeace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
08/04/05 :: Benjamin FranklinIn these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, [...] 08/02/05 :: DisturbedYou walk on like a woman in suffering
Won't even bother now to tell me why
You come alone, letting all of us savor the moment
Leaving me broken another time
You come on like a bloodstained hurricane
Leave me alone, let me be this time
You carry on like a holy man pushing redemption
I don't want to mention, the reason I know
That I am stricken and can't let you go
When the heart is cold, [...] 08/01/05 :: Thomas JeffersonShake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
08/01/05 :: Thomas JeffersonEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. 08/01/05 :: Thomas JeffersonThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
[I rarely see the second part quoted, but I think it's important to realize that Jefferson knew the implications of wha [...] 08/01/05 :: Thomas JeffersonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. 08/01/05 :: Thomas JeffersonThe care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills. 07/31/05 :: Thomas JeffersonYet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day. 07/31/05 :: Thomas JeffersonI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. 07/31/05 :: Thomas JeffersonAn honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 07/26/05 :: Iron MaidenWhen a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong?
Part of things at any cost, at what price a life is lost
At what point do we begin, fighter spirit a will to win
But what makes a man decide, take the wrong or righteous road
Theres a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
Theres a grey place between black and white
But everyone does ha [...] 07/24/05 :: River TamShe understands. She doesn't comprehend. 07/24/05 :: GandalfHe who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. 07/24/05 :: Gaius Helen MohiamYou've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. 07/24/05 :: Gaius Helen MohiamOnce, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. 07/24/05 :: Gaius Helen Mohiam'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose. 07/24/05 :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! 07/24/05 :: Paul AtreidesA process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (The First Law of Mentat) 07/10/05 :: HoobastankI will dedicate
And sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth
Of how my story's ending
And I wish I could know if the directions that I take
And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what i've been handed?
I've been crawling in the dark [...] 07/08/05 :: GhandiI believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the co-operation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their co-operation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill. 06/22/05 :: Dune, by Frank Herberthe fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...] 06/22/05 :: Dune, by Frank HerbertI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. 06/16/05 :: Dale HancheyWe embrace this idea with an enthusiasm born of desperation. 06/10/05 :: Abraham LincolnThe best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. 06/09/05 :: [unspecified]The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us
is right. 06/09/05 :: Frederick DouglassIf there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggl [...] 05/14/05 :: Breaking BenjaminCrowded streets all cleared away
One by one
Hollow heroes separate
As they run
You're so cold
Keep your hand in mine
Wise men wonder while
Strong men die
Show me how it ends, it's alright
Show me how defenseless you really are
Satisfy an empty inside
That's alright, let's give this another try
If you find your family, don't you cry
In this land of make-believe, dead and dry
Y [...] 05/14/05 :: ShinedownSend away for a priceless gift
One not subtle, one not on the list
Send away for a perfect world
One not simply so absurd
In these times of doing what you're told
You keep these feelings no one knows
What ever happened to the young man's heart
Swallowed by pain as he slowly fell apart
And I'm staring down the barrel of a .45
Swimming through the ashes of another life
No real reason to [...] 03/23/05 :: Dale HancheyNever be too proud to steal a good idea. 03/15/05 :: Oscar AmeringerPolitics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. 02/11/05 :: Bjarne StroustrupCuriously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not.
[Editor's note: while this was in the context of C++ language featur [...] 01/30/05 :: Chuang-tzuAll men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. 01/28/05 :: Frederick DouglassNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. 01/24/05 :: Charles de GaulleThe graveyards are full of indispensable men. 01/21/05 :: Dale HancheyIf you haven't tested it, it doesn't work. 01/21/05 :: Dale HancheyEvery government, once established, becomes oppressive. 01/14/05 :: Thomas JeffersonIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.  11/01/04 :: ensisHere's a random wondering I had a moment ago. I think it proves true but it may need some work.
The difference between a fool and an atheist is that a fool scoffs at things he doesn't know he doesn't understand, and an atheist scoffs at things he knows he doesn't understand.
:) I'll work on it. 08/31/04 :: insignisThis Earth has less than 10% of its total space remaining. Would you like Windows to run Earth cleanup now? 08/31/04 :: ZarthragEarth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can. 07/01/04 :: Thomas JeffersonA wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. 07/01/04 :: Thomas JeffersonThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. 06/02/04 :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
04/18/04 :: Henry Stimson (Secretary of State)... gentlemen do not read each other's mail. 04/07/04 :: Howard ChaykinI don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon. 04/07/04 :: Martin Luther King, Jr.The time is always right to do what is right. 04/07/04 :: Mark TwainIf you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause, and reflect.
[Ed. Note: you should likely reflect, regardless, but this is funnier.] 04/07/04 :: Theodore RooseveltTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. 03/12/04 :: Victor HugoAn invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
(Translated from "On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.") 03/11/04 :: George ChapmanWho to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. 02/12/04 :: CS Lewis: "The Weight of Glory""To be ignorant and simple now--not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground--would be to throw down our weapons and betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered." 01/09/04 :: George D. PrenticeMany a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. 01/06/04 :: Albert SchweitzerTruth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. 01/05/04 :: Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief (Hitler's right-hand man)We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one pie [...] 01/02/04 :: Dennis MillerLiberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.  12/01/03 :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 11/13/03 :: Michael PaineAn important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. 11/05/03 :: Arne TiseliusThe distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by... the pollution of the language. 10/19/03 :: Winston ChurchillI am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. 10/17/03 :: CLikiCLiki pages can be edited by anyone at any time. Imagine a fearsomely comprehensive disclaimer of liability. Now fear, comprehensively
10/08/03 :: [unspecified]You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. 10/03/03 :: Woody AllenTo you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition. 09/27/03 :: Strong BadThere are no two people who are not on fire. 09/16/03 :: GandalfMany that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
09/09/03 :: MontesquieuSometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer. 09/04/03 :: O'RourkeThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. 09/04/03 :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. 09/04/03 :: Richard Kerry (R-Florida)I think that the free-enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace. 09/04/03 :: Lyndon JohnsonYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. 09/04/03 :: Winston ChurchillThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 09/04/03 :: Arthur C. ClarkeYou can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. 09/04/03 :: Demonax, Roman philosopher circa 150 A.D.Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. 09/04/03 :: Michel De MontaigneThe most desirable laws are those that are rarest, simplest, and most general; and I even think that it would be better to have none at all than to have them in such numbers as we have. 09/04/03 :: Albert EinsteinThe prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. 09/04/03 :: Benjamin FranklinThose who are willing to sacrifice their basic liberties to assure their security deserve neither. 09/04/03 :: SupertrampNow watch what you say
They'll be calling you a radical, liberal,
Fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name?
We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable,
Presentable, a vegetable. 09/04/03 :: Terry PratchettGod does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. 09/04/03 :: Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 09/04/03 :: Scott AdamsNormal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. 09/04/03 :: Mark TwainFamiliarity breeds contempt -- and children. 09/04/03 :: Omar Khayam, 13th century philosopherHe who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child. Teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a leader. Follow him. 09/04/03 :: John F. KennedyMankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. 09/04/03 :: Mae WestMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
09/04/03 :: Albert EinsteinIf most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. 09/04/03 :: Aldous HuxleyFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. 09/04/03 :: Aldous HuxleyThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 09/04/03 :: Aldous HuxleyMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. 09/04/03 :: Jean-Paul SartreWhen the rich make war it's the poor who die. 09/04/03 :: Stalin (disputed?)A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. 09/04/03 :: O'RourkeIf government were a product, selling it would be illegal. 09/04/03 :: Winston ChurchillA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 09/04/03 :: Napoleon BonaparteTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. 09/04/03 :: Søren KierkegaardPeople demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. 09/04/03 :: Albert EinsteinReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 09/04/03 :: BerliozTime is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 09/04/03 :: Adolf Hitler (disputed)What luck for the rulers that men do not think! 09/04/03 :: Edna St. Vincent MillayUpon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric. 09/04/03 :: Thomas ReidWe laugh at the Indian philosopher, who to account for the support
of the earth, contrived the hypothesis of a huge elephant, and to support
the elephant, a huge tortoise. If we will candidly confess the truth, we
know as little of the operation of the nerves, as he did of the manner in
which the earth is supported: and our hypothesis about animal spirits, or
about the tension and vibrations [...] 09/04/03 :: Mahatma GandhiFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 09/04/03 :: [unspecified] Any good college textbook on "oppression and how to make the masses scream for it" will tell you that the following pattern must be followed:
1. Introduce oppression as a theoretical idea. Gauge the response.
2. Make oppression optional. Depending on the opposition to the idea (you did remember to gauge the response to the theoretical idea, didn't you?), offer some worthless token that the mass [...] 09/04/03 :: George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 09/04/03 :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. 09/04/03 :: [unspecified]Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around. 09/04/03 :: Napoleon BonaparteHistory is a set of lies that people have agreed upon. 09/04/03 :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 09/04/03 :: George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. 09/04/03 :: Sam BrownNever offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. |