Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-12-04 Dec 4, 2009Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.~ Aldous HuxleyPeople have become as processed as food.~ Astrid AlaudaThe world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.~ Ronald Firbank Dec 3, 2009Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.~ John W. GardnerSociety honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.~ Mignon McLaughlinAnother perceived attribute of intellectuals that needs rethinking and revision: the assumption that they are deeply and unequivocally committed to personal, political and intellectual freedom and especially free expression…many Western intellectuals’ commitment to intellectual freedom is selective at best.~ Paul Hollander Dec 2, 2009Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself -- at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.~ John Haynes HolmesSocial reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.~ Martin H. FischerUsually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.~ Russell Baker Dec 1, 2009History is written by those who win and those who dominate.~ Edward SaidMost people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?~ Brock FiantI think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.~ Reuben Blades Nov 30, 2009You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.~ Garrison KeillorPerhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.~ General Mark ClarkThe Communists could succeed if we ever let ourselves be lulled into thinking that they are no longer dangerous to us externally and internally. They would be victorious if we were ever duped by their own nationals or by foolish Americans -- if we were ever duped into believing that they are not aggressive, atheist socialist imperialists. They have proved they never sleep. They have never permanently retreated, and what seems at a particular time to be a cessation of their forward movement or a change in their designs is nothing more than a tactical maneuver on another front.~ Kenneth D. Wells Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print