Favorite quotations

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Here's one of my own favorites to get us started:

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

(Twain)

"Virtue can only flourish among equals." - Mary Wollstonecraft

"The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness." - Emmeline Pankhurst

"You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way." -
Emmeline Pankhurst


“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. ”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman


"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

“Peace is the only battle worth waging.” ― Albert Camus

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” ― George Carlin

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.” - George Carlin

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist” - George Carlin

“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little” - George Carlin

“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.” - George Carlin

"The Book was Better" - myself

"Always fact check, most of what you hear is lies" - myself

:There are lies, Damned lies, and there are statistics" - Unknown

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." - Noam Chomsky

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." - Noam Chomsky

"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky

"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand." - Saul Bellow

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency." - Aldous Huxley

"I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out." - Eugene V. Debs

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world." - Germaine Greer

“The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda” - Joe Bageant

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russel

"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate." - Bertrand Russel

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires." - Bertrand Russel

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

"We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."

Winston Churchill

"If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.''

~Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., discussing the design of the Grumman lunar module that landed NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.

Hard work never hurt anyone .

But hey , why take the chance ?