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"The
time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many
things; Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, Of cabbages and
kings, And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have
wings."
--Lewis
Carrol
If
Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the
guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
--James
Madison, (1751-1836)
A
man can do what he wants. But he can’t want what he
wants.
--Arthur
Schopenhauer
History
is a vast early warning system.
--Norman
Cousins, (1915-1990)
He
who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become
a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss
gazes also into you.
--Friedrich
Nietzsche, (1844-1900)
There
can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by
which to detect lies.
--Walter
Lippman, (1889-1974)
The
greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order
to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one
book.
--Samuel
Johnson, (1709-1784)
To
sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
--Abraham
Lincoln, (1809-1865)
Political
freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the
state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where
the state controls religion.
--Sam
Ervin, (1896-1985)
As
societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too.
Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you
liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so
that at election time people will solemnly vote against their
own interests.
--Gore
Vidal, (1925- )
It
is difficult to get a man to understand something when his
job depends on not understanding it.
--Upton
Sinclair
People
never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or
after a hunt.
--Otto
von Bismarck, (1815-1898)
Some
people change when they see the light, others when they feel
the heat.
--Caroline
Schoeder
History
teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times
of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant
to endure.
-Thurgood
Marshall, (1908-1993)
Insanity
in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties,
nations and epochs, it is the rule.
--Friedrich
Nietzsche, (1844-1900)
In
the long run, we're all dead.
--John
Maynard Keynes
Without
books the development of civilization would have been impossible.
They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses"
as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They
are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures
of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
--Arthur
Schopenhauer , philosopher (1788-1860)
The
radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection
of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and
atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
--Walter
Lippman, (1889-1974)
For
all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we
live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an
obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one
of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental
fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us
to understand that.
--Carl
Sagan, (1934-1996)
The
living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff.
Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle
and dry.
--Lao
Tzu, (6th century BCE)
These
are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on
the shelves.
--Gilbert
Highet, writer (1906-1978)
Justice
will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged
as those who are.
--Benjamin
Franklin, (1706-1790)
I
place economy among the first and most important republican
virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to
be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our
rulers load us with perpetual debt.
--Thomas
Jefferson, (1743-1826)
It
is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the
most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
--Charles
Darwin, (1809-1882)
When
Democrats open their mouths, they try to say something interesting.
If the true thing is obvious and boring, the liberal person
will go off and say something original, even if it is completely
idiotic. This is how deconstructionism got started.
--David
Brooks
The
best writing is rewriting.
--E.
B. White, (1899-1985)
Power
always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service
when it is violating all his laws.
--John
Adams, (1735-1826)
We
can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we
used when we created them.
--Albert
Einstein, (1879-1955)
The
important fact of the present time is not the struggle between
capitalism and socialism but the struggle between industrial
civilization and humanity.
--Bertrand
Russell, (1872-1970)
One
need not have been Caesar in order to understand Caesar.
--Max
Weber, (1978: 5)
The
middle class and working poor are told that what's happening
to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's "Invisible
Hand." This is a lie. What's happening to them is the
direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda,
the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government
subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political
decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought
the political system right out from under us.
--Bill
Moyers, 2004
In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous
rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
--Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 1961
In
a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
--Ivan
Illich, priest (1926-2002)
The
greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-Thomas
Carlyle, (1795-1881)
I
ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
--Franklin
D. Roosevelt, (1882-1945)
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