Quotes by some
famous People
And some
not quite so famous people !
If wars are started by lies, then they can be
stopped by truth. ~~ JulianAssange
Whoever does not
miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it
back has no brain ~~ Vladimir PutinNone are as
hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that they are free ~~
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The peculiar
evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing
the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who
dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the
opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging
error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a
benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth
produced by its collision with error. ~~ John Stuart Mill
Is
it just because certain types of people find it easier to view
everything (and everyone) as being either on this team or that team? ~~
John Burn-Murdoch
A people that elect
corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and
traitors are not victims but accomplices. ~~ George Orwell
Money is a
belief system. If money is based on functional ecosystems then the
future could be beautiful. ~~ John
D. Liu
It is the mark of an educated mind to be
able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.~~ Aristotle
Those
who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will
never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. ~~ Plato
You cannot bring democracy to
tyranny by conquest. Democracy can be neither injected nor imposed. It
comes into existence through a long rite of passage. It has achieved
its liberty by the actions of its own martyrs, rebels and enduring
believers. It is not a system, it is an ennoblement. Democracy must
come from within. ~~ Norman
Mailer
The man who has no tincture of philosophy
goes
through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense,
from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from
convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or
consent of his deliberate reason. ~~ Bertrand Russell
The fact that I have no remedy
for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours.
It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake. ~~ H.L.
Mencken
In peace, sons bury their
fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. ~~ Herodotus
We
often hear that human rights are more important than national
sovereignty. This is definitely true, and crimes against humanity
should be punished by an international court. But if this principle is
used as an excuse for a presumptuous violation of national sovereignty,
and if human rights are protected by foreign forces and selectively,
and if, while “protecting” those rights, they violate the rights of
many other people, including the most fundamental and sacred right, the
right to life, this is no longer a noble effort. This is merely
demagoguery. ~~ Vladimir
Putin
Freethinkers
are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and
without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs,
privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is
essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to
become worse than useless. ~~
Nikolaevich Tolstoi
Men never do evil so
completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious
conviction. ~~ Blaise
Pascal
False words are not only evil
in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ~~ Socrates
"Do what thy manhood bids thee
do, From none but self expect applause. He noblest lives, and noblest
does, Who makes and keeps his self-made laws." ~~ Sir Richard Francis
Burton
"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. And also, "Every gun that is made, every
warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not
clothed." ~~ US
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success...seems to be
connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes,
but they don't quit. ~~ Conrad
Hilton
Politics is the long shadow
cast on society by big business ~ John
Dewey
Men fear thought as they fear
nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death...
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible,
thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and
comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not
afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world,
and the chief glory of man. ~~ Bertrand
Russell
He, who will not reason, is
a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
~~ William Drummond,
Laird of Hawthornden
Quality is never an
accident. It is
always the result of intelligent effort ~~ John Ruskin
Never
argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level then beat you
with experience ~~ Bony
Never
try to teach teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the
pig. ~~ Anon
"Humanity has many enemies.
The worst of them are ignorance, arrogance, extremism, and violence" -
Abbas Kadhim
Take a chance! All life is
chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from
shore. ~~ Dale Carnegie
Never take counsel of your
fears. ~~ Gen. T. J.
Jackson
No
one is born wise. ~~ Ptahhotpe,
c. 2350 B.C.
A lie gets halfway around the
world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~~ Sir Winston
Churchill (1874-1965)
Whether you think that you
can, or that you can't, you are usually
right. ~~ Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It' the transition that' troublesome.
~~ Isaac Asimov
You
like my Website, you must be Krazee ~~ Axel Klystron
People
who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much
say little. ~~ Jean
Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens. ~~ Jimi
Hendrix
Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your
goal. ~~ Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
~~ Warren
Zevon
It
has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity. ~~ Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
It
is not for him to pride
himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the
whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
~~ Baha'u'llah
I
would have made a good Pope. ~~ Richard
M. Nixon (1913-1994)
Every
man should be his own master. ~~ Gautama
Buddha
Service
to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth. ~~
Mohammed
Sic
buisctius desintigratus. Its how the cookie crumbles ~~ Anon
You cannot make anything
foolproof, as they keep inventing better fools ~~ Anon
The great enemy of clear
language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and
one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words
and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. ~~ George
Orwell
In politics we presume that
everyone who knows how
to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are
ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent
one.” ~~ Plato
"Everything
that can be invented has been invented". ~~ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Reality
is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~~ Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names. ~~ John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
The
graveyards are full of indispensable men. ~~ Charles de Gaulle
(1890-1970)
The
covers of this book are too far apart. ~~ Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
Convincing
yourself doesn't win an argument.
~~ Robert Half
Too
many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ~~ Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
When
choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before. ~~ Mae
West (1892-1980)
If
I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? ~~ Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
Well done is better than
well said. ~~ Benjamin
Franklin
(1706-1790)
Dictatorship naturally arises
out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery
out of the most extreme liberty ~~
Plato
A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty. ~~ Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
I think there is a
world market for maybe five computers. ~~ Thomas Watson (1874-1956),
Chairman of IBM, 1943
"I think it would
be a good idea". ~~ Mahatma
Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought
of Western civilization
"There is no reason anyone
would want a computer in their home". ~~ Ken Olson, president, chairman
and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"640K ought to be enough
for anybody". ~~ Bill
Gates (1955-), in
1981
In politics we presume that
everyone who knows how
to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are
ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent
one.” ~~ Plato
It's
not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the
dog. ~~ Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
In the first place, God
created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ~~ Mark
Twain
What would men be without
women? Scarce sir, mighty scarce. ~~ Mark Twain
History doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes ~~ Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on
the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~~ Mark
Twain
God
gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a
time. ~~ Robin
Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky
affair
He
would make a lovely corpse.~~ Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
I'
just learned about his illness. Let' hope it' nothing trivial. ~~ Irvin S. Cobb
I
worship the quicksand he walks in. ~~ Art
Buchwald
We are not retreating - we
are advancing in another Direction. ~~ General Douglas MacArthur
(1880-1964)
Time
is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~~ Hector
Berlioz
Laughter
is the shortest distance between two people. ~~ Victor Borge
In
time of war the first casualty is truth. ~~ Boake Carter
It
may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to
create him.
~~ Arthur C.
Clarke
Real
knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~~ Confucius
You
shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ~~ Joseph
Conrad
I
never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ~~ Benjamin
Disraeli
Youth
is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. ~~ Benjamin
Disraeli
I
never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~~ Albert
Einstein
We
are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~~ Dwight D.
Eisenhower
A
people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
~~ Dwight D.
Eisenhower
I am
free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ~~ W.C.
Fields
The most exciting phrase to
hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!"
(I found it!) but "That's funny ..." ~~ Isaac Asimov
A
bank is a place where they
lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins
to rain. ~~ Robert Frost
In
this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ~~ Benjamin
Franklin
One
of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not
know. ~~ John Kenneth
Galbraith
To
be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed,
legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at,
controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by creatures
that have neither the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... To be governed
means that at every move, operation, or transaction one is noted,
registered, entered in a census, taxed, stamped, priced, assessed,
patented, licensed, authorized, recommended, admonished, prevented,
reformed, set right, corrected. Government means to be subjected to
tribute, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted,
pressured, mystified, robbed; all in the name of public utility and the
general good. Then, at the first sign of resistance or word of
complaint, one is repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued, hustled,
beaten up, garrotted, imprisoned, shot, machine-gunned, judged,
sentenced, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to cap all,
ridiculed, mocked, outraged and dishonoured. That is government, that
is its justice ~~ Proudhon
A marriage is always made up
of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
~~ Terry Pratchett
"Do what thy manhood bids thee
do, From none but self expect applause. He noblest lives, and noblest
does, Who makes and keeps his self-made laws." ~~ Sir Richard Francis
Burton
In my many years I have come
to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and
three or more is a congress. ~~ John
Adams
For evil to triumph it only
remains for good men to do nothing ~~ John Locke
(attributed)
He who hesitates is a damned
fool. ~~Mae West
(1892-1980)
Close alliances with despots
are never safe for free states. ~~ Demosthenes
He, who will not reason, is
a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
~~ William Drummond,
Laird of Hawthornden
Quality is never an
accident. It is
always the result of intelligent effort ~~ John Ruskin
Never
argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level then beat you
with experience ~~ Bony
Never
try to teach teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the
pig. ~~ Anon
"Humanity has many enemies.
The worst of them are ignorance, arrogance, extremism, and violence" -
Abbas Kadhim
Take a chance! All life is
chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from
shore. ~~ Dale Carnegie
Never take counsel of your
fears. ~~ Gen. T. J.
Jackson
No
one is born wise. ~~ Ptahhotpe,
c. 2350 B.C.
A lie gets halfway around the
world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~~ Sir Winston
Churchill (1874-1965)
Whether you think that you
can, or that you can't, you are usually
right. ~~ Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It' the transition that' troublesome.
~~ Isaac Asimov
You
like my Website, you must be Krazee ~~ Axel Klystron
People
who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much
say little. ~~ Jean
Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens. ~~ Jimi
Hendrix
Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your
goal. ~~ Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
~~ Warren
Zevon
It
has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity. ~~ Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
It
is not for him to pride
himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the
whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
~~ Baha'u'llah
I
would have made a good Pope. ~~ Richard
M. Nixon (1913-1994)
Every
man should be his own master. ~~ Gautama
Buddha
Service
to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth. ~~
Mohammed
Sic
buisctius desintigratus. Its how the cookie crumbles ~~ Anon
You cannot make anything
foolproof, as they keep inventing better fools ~~ Anon
The great enemy of clear
language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and
one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words
and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. ~~ George
Orwell
Reality
is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~~ Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names. ~~ John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
The
graveyards are full of indispensable men. ~~ Charles de Gaulle
(1890-1970)
The
covers of this book are too far apart. ~~ Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
Convincing
yourself doesn't win an argument.
~~ Robert Half
Too
many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ~~ Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
If
I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? ~~ Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
Well done is better than
well said. ~~ Benjamin
Franklin
(1706-1790)
Dictatorship naturally arises
out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery
out of the most extreme liberty ~~
Plato
A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty. ~~ Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
God
gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a
time. ~~ Robin
Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky
affair
He
would make a lovely corpse.~~ Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
I'
just learned about his illness. Let' hope it' nothing trivial. ~~ Irvin S. Cobb
I
worship the quicksand he walks in. ~~ Art
Buchwald
We are not retreating - we
are advancing in another Direction. ~~ General Douglas MacArthur
(1880-1964)
Time
is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~~ Hector
Berlioz
Laughter
is the shortest distance between two people. ~~ Victor Borge
In
time of war the first casualty is truth. ~~ Boake Carter
It
may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to
create him.
~~ Arthur C.
Clarke
Real
knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~~ Confucius
You
shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ~~ Joseph
Conrad
I
never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ~~ Benjamin
Disraeli
Youth
is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. ~~ Benjamin
Disraeli
I
never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~~ Albert
Einstein
We
are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~~ Dwight D.
Eisenhower
A
people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
~~ Dwight D.
Eisenhower
I am
free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ~~ W.C.
Fields
The most exciting phrase to
hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!"
(I found it!) but "That's funny ..." ~~ Isaac Asimov
A
bank is a place where they
lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins
to rain. ~~ Robert Frost
In
this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ~~ Benjamin
Franklin
One
of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not
know. ~~ John Kenneth
Galbraith
The
ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at
times of challenge and controversy.
~~ Martin Luther King
Jr
The
illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
~~ Henry Kissinger
Right
who has questions for my answers ~~ Henry
Kissinger
A
monopoly is a terrible thing - until you have one ~~ Rupert
Murdoch
In
war there is no substitute for victory. ~~ General Douglas
MacArthur
Drama
is life with the dull bits cut out. ~~ Alfred Hitchcock
In
the fight between you and the world, back the world. ~~ Franz
Kafka
The
ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at
times of challenge and controversy.
~~ Martin Luther King
Jr
I
have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their
thoughts.
~~ John Locke
Ten
people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ~~ Napoleon
In
politics stupidity is not a handicap. ~~ Napoleon
If
you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver
nothing. ~~
Napoleon
A
man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. ~~ Napoleon
History
is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~~ Napoleon
When
the rich make war it's the poor that die. ~~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Assassination
is the extreme form of censorship. ~~ George
Bernard Shaw
A
single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. ~~ Joseph
Stalin
The trouble with the rat-race
is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~~ Lily Tomlin
Sometimes I worry about being
a success in a mediocre world. ~~ Lily
Tomlin
If
you can't convince them, confuse them. ~~ Harry S Truman
Mubarak is immensely
courageous and a force for good ~~ Tony
Blair, ex Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
Mubarak is not a dictator ~~
Joe Biden
“One major irony here is that law, which always lags
behind technological innovation by at least a generation, gives
substantially more protections to a communication’s content than to its
metadata — and yet intelligence agencies are far more interested in the
metadata — the activity records that allow them both the “big picture”
ability to analyze data at scale, and the ‘little picture’ ability to
make perfect maps, chronologies, and associative synopses of an
individual person’s life, from which they presume to extrapolate
predictions of behavior.”
Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (2019)