"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -
George Santayana
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." -
Mark Twain
"The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of
'manhood.'" -
Paulo
Freire
"Freedom in a commons brings ruin to
all." -
Garrett Hardin
"Just because a thought enters your mind
does not mean it needs to exit your mouth." -
Michael J.
Burns
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans
are useless but planning is indispensable." -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Everyone is entitled to his own
opinion, but not his own facts." -
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Like all dreamers, I mistook
disenchantment for truth." -
Jean-Paul Sartre
"It was always at night—the arrests
invariably happened at night. The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand
shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard
faces round the bed. In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no
report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night.
Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had
ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then
forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: VAPORIZED was the usual word.” -
George
Orwell (From
1984)
"Heaven has the better climate, but hell
has the better company.” -
Benjamin Wade
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." -
Steven
Wright
"Irony: When a
person conceived by IVF rails against GMO food." -
Michael J. Burns
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires." -
Susan B. Anthony
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have
freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -
Harriet Tubman
"If the
world is one great commons, in which all food is shared equally, then we are
lost. Those who breed faster will replace the rest. Sharing the food from
national territories is operationally equivalent to sharing territory; in
both cases a commons is established, and tragedy is the ultimate result." -
Garrett Hardin
"Moral narcissism is about being more concerned with the
cleanliness of your hands than with how your conduct shapes the lives around
you." -
Kwame Anthony Appiah
"Arguing that you don't care about the
right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than
saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -
Edward Snowden
"If one would give me six lines written by
the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him
hanged.” — Cardinal
Richelieu in 1641
"There are known knowns: the things you
know you know. There are known unknowns: the things you know you don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns: the things you don't know you don't
know." -
Donald Rumsfeld
"And no wonder, for Satan himself
masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his
servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness." -
2
Corinthians 11
"A class system is something you use to
discriminate against someone who looks like you." -
Reginald D. Hunter
"A man who views the world the same at 50
as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” -
Muhammad Ali
[Answering the question, what is a cynic?]
"A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Lord
Darlington, Act III. from Oscar
Wilde's "Lady
Windermere's Fan"
"Don’t
spoil a good story by telling the truth." -
Isabella Stewart Gardner
"Some things are true whether you believe
in them or not." - Seth (City
of Angels, 1998)