Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-09-10 Sep 10, 2004Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.~ BuddhaNow majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But, like other precious, sacred things…it’s not only worth dying for, it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.~ P. J. O'Rourke Sep 9, 2004Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains and always was.~ D. H. LawrenceWhen complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John MiltonIt is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.~ Mark Twain Sep 8, 2004A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.~ James Russell LowellIn a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.~ Robert A. HeinleinAuthority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.~ Robert Lindner Sep 7, 2004Law and justice are not always the same.~ Gloria SteinemThe law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.~ Raymond ChandlerA lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.~ Mario Puzo Sep 6, 2004Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.~ Thomas Sowell[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.~ Antonie van LeeuwenhoekYour book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print