Miscellaneous Quotes
Here are some interesting quotes in no order whatsoever. Search through and you may find a gem or three.
| A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. - Benjamin Desraeli |
| Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. -Will and Ariel Durant |
| If the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. - Stanley Garn |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. -Galileo Galilei |
| He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond |
| Men are better watching the seasons and putting good into the earth than running together in cities where they listen all day to each other's noises. . .--Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine |
| The difference between common-sense and paranoia is that common-sense is thinking everyone is out to get you. That's normal - they are. Paranoia is thinking that they're conspiring.--J. Kegler |
| Never fly the “A” model of anything. —Edward Thompson |
| With or without [religion] you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. – Stephen Weinberg, physicist |
| Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. — Mark Twain? |
| The Government. Serving and protecting, faithfully. Until the evil in those who wield power deem the probability of their crimes being discovered small enough to abuse their positions for personal gain. Or, worse, they’re blinded by ambition. -- Stephen Frey, The Chairman |