Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-01-18 Jan 18, 2010A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.~ H. L. MenckenThe religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is unapproved of not only intellectually but also morally.~ Joseph A. SchumpeterYou're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.~ Octave Mirbeau Jan 15, 2010Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.~ Alfred Lord TennysonI would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.~ Rabbi Harold KushnerYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.~ William Blake Jan 14, 2010Time makes more converts than reason.~ Thomas PaineThe revolution is ... the blow dealt ... against the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.~ Voltairine de CleyreIf you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.~ Yogi Berra Jan 13, 2010The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.~ John MiltonLet others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.~ OvidDelay is preferable to error.~ Thomas Jefferson Jan 12, 2010The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political “mistakes” without being subjected to governmental penalties.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.~ Oscar WildeLet us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.~ Wendell Phillips Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print