Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. (Alfred Hitchcock)
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. (Mao Zedong)
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. (Albert Camus)
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. (Harry S Truman)
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. (Brian Tracy)
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. (Ambrose Bierce)
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. (Benjamin Franklin)
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. (Pierre Corneille)
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. (Albert Einstein)
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. (Ambrose Bierce)
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller)
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance. (Laertius Diogenes)
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (Milton Friedman)
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. (Shana Alexander)
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. (Oprah Winfrey)
'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms. (Niall MacDermot)
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. (Henry David Thoreau)
If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow. (Chinese Proverb)
All great truths begin as blasphemies. (George Bernard Shaw)