Bob Keeshan

“The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents”. –Bob Keeshan

J.F.C. Fuller

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

Isabel Paterson

“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

Ibn Khaldun

“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage”. –Ibn Khaldun

Edith Wharton

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

Billy Bennett

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Sacha Guitry

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

Asger Jorn

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

John Quincy Adams

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Werner Heisenberg

“Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”. –Werner Heisenberg

Haim Ginott

“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task”. –Haim Ginott

Nahum Tate

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

Louis Agassiz

“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

Jim Backus

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

Ernest Bramah

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

Otto Hahn

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

Revilo P. Oliver

“If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can only be ended by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are perfectly warless worlds”. –Revilo P. Oliver

Philo

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

Frédéric Bastiat

“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else”. –Frédéric Bastiat

Henry Steele Commager

“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

Federico García Lorca

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

Charles Dibdin

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

Linus Pauling

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away”. –Linus Pauling

John Heywood

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

William Saroyan

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing”. –William Saroyan

Meir Kahane

“One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent”. –Meir Kahane

Charles Reade

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

Immanuel Kant

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

F.H. Bradley

“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge”. –F.H. Bradley

Lucian

“Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid”. –Lucian

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

James Monroe

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

John Bonham

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

Matthew Arnold

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Julian Jaynes

“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

Woodrow Wilson

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

Phil Ochs

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

Elizabeth Gaskell

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues”. –Elizabeth Gaskell

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Stefan Zweig

“The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them”. –Stefan Zweig

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Ingmar Bergman

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Roman Dmowski

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

Gregor Strasser

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

Friedrich Klopstock

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

Baltasar Gracián

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

James Naismith

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief””. –James Naismith

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril”. –Nathaniel Hawthorne

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

William Westmoreland

“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves”. –William Westmoreland

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Kabir

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Sholem Aleichem

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”. –Sholem Aleichem

George Saintsbury

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it”. –George Saintsbury

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman

Jonas Salk

“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality”. –Jonas Salk

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Carroll Quigley

“We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries”. –Carroll Quigley

Nicolas Chamfort

“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal”. –Nicolas Chamfort

Dōgen

“Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker”. –Dōgen

Learned Hand

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

Henri Laborit

“Doubting, it’s believing that we never had understood the whole thing”. –Henri Laborit

Bill Mauldin

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo”. –Bill Mauldin

Marcel Duchamp

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

George Moore

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Eça de Queiroz

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

Marcel Proust

“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, and effort which no one can spare us”. –Marcel Proust

James Allen

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

Charlton Ogburn

“Circumstances are seldom right… You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments”. –Charlton Ogburn

Honoré Mirabeau

“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses”. –Honoré Mirabeau

Shams Tabrizi

“There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much”. –Shams Tabrizi

Henri de Lubac

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

August Dvorak

“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don’t want to change!” –August Dvorak

Zoroaster

“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession”. –Zoroaster

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Jack Dempsey

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”. –Jack Dempsey

Friedrich von Hayek

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these”. –Paul Harvey

Susan B. Anthony

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South”. –Susan B. Anthony

Vernon Richards

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

Martin Niemöller

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

Maxim Gorky

“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man — Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?” –Maxim Gorky

Novalis

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis

John Marshall

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

Abu Bakr

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Malcolm X

“Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks”. –Malcolm X

Mary Shelley

“It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape”. –Mary Shelley

Israel Zangwill

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled”. –Israel Zangwill

Galen

“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn”. –Galen

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Frank Sinatra

“If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… It possesses you”. –Frank Sinatra

Confucius

“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous”. –Confucius

Roger Zelazny

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe”. –Roger Zelazny

Oliver Herford

“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies”. –Dean Acheson

Jean Giraudoux

“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom”. –Jean Giraudoux

Warren G. Harding

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

Harry Chapin

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

Fukuzawa Yukichi

“We do not have time to wait for the enlightenment of our neighbors so that we can work together toward the development of Asia. It is better for us to leave the ranks of Asian nations and cast our lot with civilized nations of the West… We should deal with them exactly as Westerners do”. –Fukuzawa Yukichi

Louis Pasteur

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world”. –Louis Pasteur

Ronald Firbank

“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain”. –Ronald Firbank

Jack London

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

Robert G. Ingersoll

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

Robert Southey

“Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust”. –Robert Southey

Quintilian

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish”. –Quintilian

Vyacheslav Molotov

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

Geoffrey Chaucer

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde”. –Geoffrey Chaucer

Pierre Trudeau

“We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. –Pierre Trudeau

Ethan Allen

“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy”. –Ethan Allen

Thomas Francis Meagher

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

Bertolt Brecht

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”. –Bertolt Brecht

Jerry Garcia

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

William Blake

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”. –William Blake

Theodor Adorno

“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit”. –Theodor Adorno

James Larkin

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

Helen Keller

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow man. It then appears that we are among the privileged”. –Helen Keller

Thomas Carlyle

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle

Emil Cioran

“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion”. –Emil Cioran

Goldwin Smith

“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party”. –Goldwin Smith

Alexander Hamilton

“It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government”. –Alexander Hamilton

Yehuda Ashlag

“The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state”. –Yehuda Ashlag

Charles Lindbergh

“I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve”. –Charles Lindbergh

Syd Barrett

“I think young people should have a lot of fun, but I never seem to have any”. –Syd Barrett

Lewis Mumford

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers”. –Lewis Mumford

Jean Henri Fabre

“We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd”. –Jean Henri Fabre

J.G. Stedman

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

Anne Frank

“There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again”. –Anne Frank

Robert A. Heinlein

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil”. –Robert A. Heinlein

Mao Zedong

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun”. –Mao Zedong

Yukio Mishima

“My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality”. –Yukio Mishima

Giordano Bruno

“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it”. –Giordano Bruno

William F. Buckley

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”. –William F. Buckley

Nikolai Gogol

“They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know”. –Nikolai Gogol

Ludwig von Mises

“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man”. –Ludwig von Mises

Osbert Sitwell

“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space”. –Osbert Sitwell

Samuel Smiles

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform”. –Samuel Smiles

Menander

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can”. –Menander

Boris Pasternak

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise”. –Boris Pasternak

Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”. –Peter Drucker

Adolf Hitler

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

Peter Jennings

“This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this, and all jobs in journalism, have believed that”. –Peter Jennings

John Stuart Mill

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

Samuel Gompers

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

Dag Hammarskjöld

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment”. –Dag Hammarskjöld

Albrecht Dürer

“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error”. –Albrecht Dürer

Steve Biko

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”. –Steve Biko

T.S. Eliot

“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”. –T.S. Eliot

William Shakespeare

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well”. –William Shakespeare

Herodotus

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons”. –Herodotus

Otis Blackwell

“I’d hate to be a songwriter starting a career today”. –Otis Blackwell

Thomas Edison

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”. –Thomas Edison

Livy

“Shared danger is the strongest of all bonds; it keeps men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion”. –Livy

Abraham Lincoln

“You and I are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other races. Whether it be right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living amongst us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated”. –Abraham Lincoln

Yogananda

“There are always two forces warring against each other within us”. –Yogananda

Albert Ellis

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny”. –Albert Ellis

Jesse Helms

“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they Slants, Beaners, or Niggers”. –Jesse Helms

Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”. –Mark Twain

Karl von Clausewitz

“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles”. –Karl von Clausewitz

Alexander Meiklejohn

“Democracy is the art of thinking independently together”. –Alexander Meiklejohn

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

Allen Ginsberg

“You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits repression in various forms of social sadism”. –Allen Ginsberg

J.D. Salinger

“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world”. –J.D. Salinger

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Virgil

“Time bears away all things, even our minds”. –Virgil

William Hazlitt

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest”. –William Hazlitt

Kristen Nygaard

“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”. –Kristen Nygaard

Ogden Nash

“Senator Smoot is an institute Not to be bribed with pelf; He guards our homes from erotic tomes By reading them all himself”. –Ogden Nash

Polykarp Kusch

“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs the world”. –Polykarp Kusch

Tupac Shakur

“America is the biggest gang in the world”. –Tupac Shakur

Charles Darwin

“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment”. –Charles Darwin

Soren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”. –Soren Kierkegaard

Richard Pryor

“I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn’t find one god damned Pryor!”

Edward R. Murrow

“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man”. –Edward R. Murrow

Polybius

“When a state after having passed with safety through many and great dangers arrives at the higher degree of power, and possesses an entire and undisputed sovereignty, it is manifest that the long continuance of prosperity must give birth to costly and luxurious manners…” –Polybius

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship”. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jim Morrison

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

Washington Irving

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them”. –Washington Irving

Denis Diderot

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step”. –Denis Diderot

William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”. –William Penn

Eugene Ionesco

“I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstandings”. –Eugene Ionesco

Henrik Ibsen

“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy”. –Henrik Ibsen

Diogenes

“The mob is the mother of tyrants”. –Diogenes

Sri Aurobindo

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion”. –Sri Aurobindo

William Morris

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name”. –William Morris

Auguste Comte

“The dead governs the living”. –Auguste Comte

Vladimir Lenin

“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency”. –Vladimir Lenin

Aleksandr Pushkin

“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world”. –Aleksandr Pushkin

Kurt Vonnegut

“Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima”. –Kurt Vonnegut

Christopher Reeve

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable”. –Christopher Reeve

Harry S. Truman

“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs, or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist; he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes”. –Harry S. Truman

William Bligh

“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements”. –William Bligh

Nancy Mitford

“Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?” –Nancy Mitford

John Vanbrugh

“A slighted woman knows no bounds”. –John Vanbrugh

Voltaire

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in”. –Voltaire

Erich Ludendorff

“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action”. –Erich Ludendorff

Michael Crichton

“We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion”. –Michael Crichton

Jerome

“Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, ‘Why do you not practice what you preach?'”. –Jerome

Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The government is best which makes itself unnecessary”. –Wilhelm von Humboldt

David Grayson

“Looking back, I have this to regret; that too often when I loved, I did not say so”. –David Grayson

Ralph Ellison

“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked”. –Ralph Ellison

Ivan Pavlov

“Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin”. –Ivan Pavlov

Orson Welles

“The ideal American-type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality, there are few left”. –Orson Welles

T.E. Lawrence

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses  of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did”. –T.E. Lawrence

Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee; And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me”. –Robert Frost

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see”. –Arthur Schopenhauer

James Otis

“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

William Petty

“That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World”. –William Petty

Randall Jarrell

“In the United States, there one feels free… Except from the Americans — but every pearl has its oyster”. –Randall Jarrell

Ken Kesey

“He who marches out of line hears another drum”. –Ken Kesey

Barbara Tuchman

“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed”. –Barbara Tuchman

Bruno Walter

“Napoleon is dead — but Beethoven lives”. –Bruno Walter

John Arbuthnot

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

Democritus

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”. –Democritus

Francis Bacon

“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover truth”. –Francis Bacon

Nathalie Sarraute

“It’s the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles”. –Nathalie Sarraute

Charles de Gaulle

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word”. –Charles de Gaulle

Marlon Brando

“I don’t think its in the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed”. –Marlon Brando

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think”. –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Benjamin Jowett

“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door”. –Benjamin Jowett

Miguel de Cervantes

“In order to obtain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd”. –Miguel de Cervantes

Karl Kraus

“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost”. –Karl Kraus

Claudius

“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing”. –Claudius

Virginia Woolf

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody”. –Virginia Woolf

Walter Raleigh

“Whosoever, in writing modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth”. –Walter Raleigh

Pierre Beaumarchais

“Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals”. –Pierre Beaumarchais

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The clock of communism has stopped striking, but its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble”. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Graham Greene

“A petty reason, perhaps, why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction”. –Graham Greene

Max Euwe

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation”. –Max Euwe

Robert Graves

“Nobody is familiar with his own profile, and it comes as a shock when one sees it in a portrait, that one really looks like that to people standing beside one”. –Robert Graves

Georges Bizet

“As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note”. –Georges Bizet

Hans Christian Andersen

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken”. –Hans Christian Andersen

Friedrich Engels

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgement of Reason, or give up existence”. –Friedrich Engels

John Steinbeck

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. –John Steinbeck

Booker T. Washington

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public”. –Booker T. Washington

Franz Kafka

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world”. –Franz Kafka

Walter Kaufmann

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

Arthur C. Clarke

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

Wernher von Braun

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently”. –Wernher von Braun

H.G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

Salvador Dali

“Any kind of organization for the goodwill of the people is impossible. It is necessary for the contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously”. –Salvador Dali

Luc de Clapiers

“To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die”. –Luc de Clapiers

Basil of Caesarea

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger”. –Basil of Caesarea

Francis Galton

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Georges Duhamel

“It is always brave to say what everyone thinks”. –Georges Duhamel

John Lennon

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Margaret Sanger

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it”. –Margaret Sanger

Giuseppe Mazzini

“So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal”. –Giuseppe Mazzini

Klaus Kinski

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski

Aphra Behn

“There is no sinner like a young saint”. –Aphra Behn

John Milton

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

Edward Heath

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

Aristotle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”. –Aristotle

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Either you think — or else others have to think for you, and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you”. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

Edward Thorndike

“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads; not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race”. –Edward Thorndike

Charles Kingsley

“Science frees us in many ways… from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming”. –Charles Kingsley

Ansel Adams

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment”. –Ansel Adams

James A. Michener

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home”. –James A. Michener

George Orwell

“Between them, these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war”. –George Orwell

Jawaharlal Nehru

“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive”. –Jawaharlal Nehru

Bernard Malamud

“If you ever forget you’re a Jew, a Gentile will remind you”. –Bernard Malamud

Meister Eckhart

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake”. –Meister Eckhart

Lenny Bruce

“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses”. –Lenny Bruce

Maximilien Robespierre

“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty”. –Maximilien Robespierre

Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

Leon Trotsky

“A means can be justified only by its end, but the end in its turn needs to be justified”. –Leon Trotsky

G.K. Chesterton

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance”. –G.K. Chesterton

Leo Ryan

“Neither Republicans nor Democrats have begun to spell out in substantive fashion the means by which we can control population growth, environmental problems, and the conservation of our natural resources”. –Leo Ryan

William Cowper

“Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they”. –William Cowper

Nicolaus Copernicus

“For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them”. –Nicolaus Copernicus

Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

Albert Meltzer

“Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated”. –Albert Meltzer

Ryokan

“The winds give me Enough fallen leaves To make a fire”. –Ryokan

Austin O’Malley

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father”. –Austin O’Malley

Albert Schweitzer

“The African is my brother — but he is my younger brother by several centuries”. –Albert Schweitzer

L. Ron Hubbard

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion”. –L. Ron Hubbard

Ian Fleming

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

Bruce Lee

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it”. –Bruce Lee

Rumi

“If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself”. –Rumi

Holbrook Jackson

“Patience has its limits; take it too far and it’s cowardice”. –Holbrook Jackson

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves”. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ernest Renan

“To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious”. –Ernest Renan

Oliver Goldsmith

“For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and fight again”. –Oliver Goldsmith

Zhuangzi

“During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream”. –Zhuangzi

Salvatore Quasimodo

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost”. –Salvatore Quasimodo

David Brinkley

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians”. –David Brinkley

Edgar Cayce

“The Lord marks the fall of the smallest sparrow. He knows how so many in authority treat the infirm, and the aged. Look at the Napoleons, Cæsars, and the like. Rather than casting themselves in God’s image, they made Gods of themselves, and were destroyed”. –Edgar Cayce

Paul Tillich

“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being”. –Paul Tillich

Stephen Ambrose

“Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands”. –Stephen Ambrose

Golda Meir

“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us”. –Golda Meir

Charlton Heston

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”. –Charlton Heston

Varro

“No sick man’s monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won’t say it’s true”. –Varro

Charles Olson

“When will the government cease being a nuisance to everybody?” –Charles Olson

Aneurin Bevan

“Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets”. –Aneurin Bevan

Emile Durkheim

“It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh”. –Emile Durkheim

Timothy Leary

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”. –Timothy Leary

Alexander Pope

“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends”. –Alexander Pope

Vincent van Gogh

“There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation, many things remain incomprehensible and dark”. –Vincent van Gogh

Leo Tolstoy

“The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work, the more their poverty will increase”. –Leo Tolstoy

Curtis LeMay

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government, and you are fighting a people. You are not trying to fight an armed force anymore, so it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders”. –Curtis LeMay

William James

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James

Gustave Flaubert

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost”. –Gustave Flaubert

Hunter S. Thompson

“I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling”. –Hunter S. Thompson

Camilo Jose Cela

“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history, and the ones who endure it”. –Camilo Jose Cela

Franz Liszt

“What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown song of which death sounds the first solemn note?” –Franz Liszt

Adam Smith

“Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little”. –Adam Smith

Frederico Fellini

“It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman”. –Frederico Fellini

Niels Bohr

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel; for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”. –Niels Bohr

Karl Marx

“Democracy is the road to socialism”. –Karl Marx

Æschylus

“I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease I spit on more than treachery”. –Æschylus

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity”. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peter Kropotkin

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society”. –Peter Kropotkin

John Pearson

“Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition”. –John Pearson

W.E.B. Du Bois

“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”. –W.E.B. Du Bois

Giacomo Casanova

“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women, as a general rule, dupe each other”. –Giacomo Casanova

Rube Goldberg

“I’ve met all kinds of people, oh, God, presidents and everybody else, and, I’m not too impressed with celebrity, with names now”. –Rube Goldberg

Norman Mailer

“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

Rudyard Kipling

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die”. –Rudyard Kipling

Hector Berlioz

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”. –Hector Berlioz

Joseph Goebbels

“Our starting point is not the individual. We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or cloth the naked. Our objectives are different; we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world”. –Joseph Goebbels

Vernon Howard

“You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life”. –Vernon Howard

Mikhail Bakunin

“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘the People’s Stick'”. –Mikhail Bakunin

Khalil Gibran

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to”. –Khalil Gibran

Ernest Rutherford

“A theory you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good”. –Ernest Rutherford

Paul Newman

“If you’re playing a poker game, and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”. –Paul Newman

Jose Rizal

“The tyranny of some is only possible through the cowardice of others”. –Jose Rizal

Walter Scott

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears”. –Walter Scott