Mark Wood

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." - Oscar Ameringer.

"Consider this remarkable irony: most citizens put their faith in government - the entity that steals from us, causes wars, imprisons and starves innocent citizens, and is an absolute monopoly - to provide for us and keep us safe. At the same time, they see businesses - which have eradicated diseases and starvation, engaged in peaceful exchanges instead of war, produced virtually everything we currently own and enjoy, paid us our wages and provided capital for us to improve our productivity, all the while being fully restrained by hungry competitors (in free markets) - as our enemies from whom we need protection. These commonly held but irrational prejudices for government and against businesses form the very foundation of the political arguments espoused by professional anticapitalist "thinkers." - Kel Kelly.

"property exists in nature: for it is impossible that every one should not be the proprietor of his individuality and of his faculties." - Count Destutt de Tracy (Mentor of Thomas Jefferson).

"Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help..." - MK Gandhi.

"Our inherited moral idiom is thus being challenged by another, in which individuals find their identifying essence in supporting public policies that are both morally obligatory and politically imperative. Such policies are, I suggest, 'politico-moral.' Such an attitude dramatically moralizes politics, and politicizes the moral life. It feeds on our instinctive support for good causes. Yet it also suggests that the most important sign of moral integrity, of decency and goodness, is not found in facing up to one's responsibilities, but in holding the right opinions, generally about grand abstractions such as poverty and war. This illusion might well be fingered as the ultimate servility." - Dr Kenneth Minogue.

"I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor." - D.H. Lawrence.

"Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612.

"Makes me mad. It adds insult to injury that Ronald Reagan got elected on essentially libertarian rhetoric - smaller government, lower taxes, getting the state off the little guy's back, etc., and the signed appropriations bills that saw government grow by huge, then-unprecedented amounts. Many people today think the Reagan years prove that less government is a bad idea!" - Louis James.

"Aristotle, in the fourth century BC, was the first person to define what money is. And what is it? It's a store of value and a medium of exchange." - Doug Casey.

"The greediest thing I can think of is a generous government." - John Jay Myers.

"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." - John Savage, Brave New World.

"a renewal of faith in common human nature, in its potentialities in general, and in its power in particular to respond to reason and truth, is a surer bulwark against totalitarianism than a demonstration of material success or a devout worship of special legal and political forms." - John Dewey.

"We can be educated for freedom - much better educated for it than we are at present." - Aldus Huxley.

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov.

"To believe in rights is to believe that certain key interests of individuals, in liberty and well-being, deserve special protection, and that they should not be sacrificed for the sake of greater efficiency or prosperity or for any aggregate of lesser interests under the heading of the public good." - Jeremy Waldron.

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford.

"The art of government lies in knowing nothing at the proper moment." - Edgar Wallace (1912).

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." - Ronald Reagan.

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk." - Ronald Reagan.

"Don't be afraid to see what you see." - Ronald Reagan.

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States." - Ronald Reagan.

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." - Ronald Reagan.

"If a thing loves, it is infinite." - William Blake.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell.

"I absolutely cannot tolerate how your generation views the human race as inherently evil creatures. You have the notion that power WILL corrupt you, and ALL people with power are dishonest reprobates. That is RIDICULOUS. Some of the best men I have known only grew stronger and smarter once they came to power." - A Girl and her Fed.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams.

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come" - Victor Hugo.

"Whilst we are procrastinating, life hurries by." - Seneca.

"Life is not about finding yourself; it is about creating yourself." - Anonymous.

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson.

"They only live who dare." - Voltaire.

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." - Anonymous.

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Cherokee Proverb.

"Failure to understand not only that un-designed social orders are real, but also that these un-designed orders are superior to any arrangements that could be consciously engineered, is perhaps the greatest source of tyranny and disorder of the past 200 years." - Donald J. Boudreaux, Professor of Economics at George Mason University.

"Much of the chaos that planners fail to mold into order is precisely the dynamism and diversity that drive economic prosperity. The vitality of cities depends on disorder." - Lynn Scarlett.

"There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess." - Friedrich August von Hayek.

"Whatever happened to crazy? What, ya can't be crazy no more? Should we take crazy out of the dictionary?" - Chris Rock.

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison.

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." - Henry Kissinger.

"Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. But suffering is a disease. Should one come upon it, one tries to give relief and assistance. To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer - in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism. The creator is not concerned with disease, but with life. Yet the work of the creators has eliminated one form of disease after another, in man's body and spirit, and brought more relief from suffering than any altruist could ever conceive." - Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead.

"We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money." - Davy Crockett, 1836.

"The number of cars, laptops, and MRI machines, etc... in the world is proportional to the number of machines used to make cars, laptops, and MRI machines etc..., which is the world's industrial capital stock. These machines are almost exclusively funded by people with disposable income. When government taxes all the disposable income, society ceases to accumulate capital/wealth, and natural wear and tear reduce wealth." - Unknown.

"It is absolutely bizarre that the people who can't tell us what the fucking weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the fucking global temperatures will be in 100 years' time. It's horseshit." - Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair.

"Profit tells the entrepreneur that the consumers approve of his ventures; loss, that they disapprove." - Ludwig von Mises.

"Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy"-Ludwig von Mises.

"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion." - James Burgh (Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses) [London, 1774-1775].

"The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose" - Frederick Douglass.

"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for." - Will Rogers.

"1776 Americans: "Give me liberty or give me death! 2011 Americans: "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!" - Judge Andrew Napolitano.

"I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like zero." - Ron Paul.

"It does not matter how the cotton is picked once we end slavery. What matters is that slavery is immoral." - Matthew Reece.

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years." - Henry David Thoreau.

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." - Henry David Thoreau.

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - Henry David Thoreau.

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." - Henry David Thoreau.

"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference." - Henry David Thoreau.

"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe." - Henry David Thoreau.

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau.

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." - Henry David Thoreau.

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." - Henry David Thoreau.

"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society." - Henry David Thoreau.

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau.

"That government is best which governs least." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The perception of beauty is a moral test." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organised form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence." - Mahatma Ghandi.

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." - Abraham Lincoln.

"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves." - Lysander Spooner.

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." - Thomas Jefferson.

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - President Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." - Friedrich Nietzsche.

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most mean dread it." - George Bernard Shaw.

"Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory." - Robert A. Heinlein.

"Of course, I don't believe an ideal world is achievable. But if we aim lower than perfection, then we set a ceiling on happiness." - Nathan McKnight.

"I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back." - Leo Tolstoy.

"Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses." - Leo Tolstoy.

"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money." - Joseph Sobran.

"Aid is just a stop-gap. Commerce [and] entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid. In dealing with poverty here and around the world, welfare and foreign aid are a Band-Aid. Free enterprise is a cure. Entrepreneurship is the most sure way of development." - Bono.

"Sir, If Rupert Murdoch wishes to buy a television station and has the money to do so, good luck to him. It is none of my business and none of the Government's. If the Government has the taxpayers' interests at heart, it should sell him the ABC, thus saving the public a lot of money." - Lang Hancock (1981).

"The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them." - Lang Hancock (1977).

"There is only one thing wrong with our whole education system and this is our whole education system - naturally, as there is no profit incentive in the education system, it is monolithic, incompetent and generally not worth pissing on." - John Singelton.

"The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, ... or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Major John Cartwright (5 June 1824).

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke.

"Hatred is the central element of our struggle! Hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold-blooded killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus." - Che Guevara.

"The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!" - Che Guevara.

"We can in no way accept that my father should appear on women's underwear or men's underwear or that it should be on the back pocket of a pair of jeans or that they use it as a commercial image for a pair of glasses. We think that is lacking in respect and we won't accept that." - Aleida Guevara.

"Most people don't know the real Che Guevara - the Che Guevara who wrote that he was thirsty for blood, the Che who assassinated thousands of people without any regard for any real legal process. " - Felix Rodriguez, CIA agent.

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago".

"London was like some prehistoric animal, capable of enduring terrible injuries, mangled and bleeding from many wounds, and yet preserving its life and movement." - Sir Winston Churchill on The Battle of Britain.

"When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." - Desmond Tutu.

"Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million." - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical." - Warren Tantum.

"I love Liberty, of course. That's why I'm a Libertarian. But liberty is absolutely toxic if not accompanied by a strong sense of responsibility. For some years, failure to recognize this has been a widespread failing among progressives -- not universal, but depressingly common. And lately, I've been seeing it seeping into the libertarian community. Pardon me for repeating the obvious, but actions have consequences. This can't be escaped. Sometimes, the consequences can be shifted onto the backs of someone else, but this is never right, never fair, and in the long run, it never works." - John K. Fockler, Jr.

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." - Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit.

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." - Robert A. Heinlein.

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau.

"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions." - T.S. Eliot.

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" - Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader.

"The current hysteria over "fake news" - including hysteria by people who have done more than their own fair share of faking news - shows the continuing efforts of the political left to stifle free speech in the country at large, as they already have on academic campuses." - Thomas Sowell.

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." - Frederic Bastiat, The Law.

"Only a weak man needs to show force." - Myuran Sukumaran.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan.

"Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so." - Friedrich Hayek.

"A man is a god in ruins" - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind." - The Epic of Gilgamesh.

"Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or "Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. These were not people that believed in individual liberty. They certainly didn't believe the individual had the right to chose their own mate freely. They were statists. They were totalitarians at heart." - A.E. Samaan.

"Government cannot "restore competition," or "ensure" it. Government is monopoly; and all it can do is to impose restrictions which may issue in monopoly, when they go so far as to require permission for the individual to engage in production." - Isabel Paterson. (The God of the Machine, 1943)

"Gold was not and is not given value by fiat, any more than cheese or cotton or leather were given value by fiat. It has value because it serves a vital need. Nothing can be given value by fiat. If a gold coin of the Roman Republic were dug up now, it would have its original value, though the Roman Republic perished two thousand years ago. So would a Russian gold ruble minted under the czars, or a gold coin of Germany or France dated before 1914; though the last czar was shot in a cellar, the last German emperor fled the country and died in exile and France has suffered invasion and conquest. But paper currency of Russia, Germany or France before 1914 is now waste paper." - Isabel Paterson. (The God of the Machine, 1943)

"Because man is not deterministic, there can be no set order of his discoveries. Progress is always possible, but it depends upon the unpredictable use of intelligence. From the known record, it does not appear that men have ever wholly lost any important body of knowledge once attained; though it might lie unused for a time, until the moral principles were affirmed by which material science could be applied beneficially. The precedence of the moral order is clear, since useful discoveries occur only when men secure liberty by restraint of the political power. Such discoveries were made at various times and places, and brought together; but the principles involved are universal." - Isabel Paterson. (The God of the Machine, 1943)

"No one person, though his income be $10 million dollars a year, can take care of every case of need in the world. But supposing he has no means of his own and still imagines that he can make "helping others" at once his primary purpose and the normal way of life, which is the central doctrine of the humanitarian creed, how is he to go about it? ... There is only one way, and that is by the use of the political power in its fullest extension. Hence, the humanitarian feels the utmost gratification when he visits or hears of a country in which everyone is restricted to ration cards. Where subsistence is doled out, the desideratum has been achieved, of general want and a superior power to "relieve" it. The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action. ... Why do kindhearted persons call in the political power? They cannot deny that the means for relief must come from production. But they say there is enough and to spare. Then they must assume that the producers are not willing to give what is "right." Further, they assume that there is a collective right to impose taxes, for any purpose the collective shall determine. They localize that right in "the government," as if it were self-existent. But if taxes are to be imposed for relief, who is the judge of what is possible or beneficial? It must be either the producers, the needy or some third group. To say it shall be all three together is no answer; the verdict must swing upon majority or plurality drawn from one or other group. Are the needy to vote themselves whatever they want? Are the humanitarians, the third group, to vote themselves control of both the producers and the needy? (That is what they have done.) The government is thus supposed to be empowered to give "security" to the needy. It cannot. What it does is to seize the provision made by private persons for their own security, thus depriving everyone..." - Isabel Paterson. (The God of the Machine, 1943)

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" - Frederic Bastiat, The Law.

"Science is about what is; engineering is about what can be." - Neil Armstrong.

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine" - Neil Armstrong.

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food." - Anthony Bourdain.

"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas." - Boris Johnson.

"My friend Richard Feynman said, "I don't know." I heard him say it several times. He said it just like Harold, the mentally handicapped dishwasher I worked with when I was a young man making minimum wage at Famous Bill's Restaurant in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

"The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what's to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn't have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don't want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don't want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you." - Penn Jillette.

"Luck is probability taken personally." - Chip Denman.

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort." - Robert A. Heinlein.

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." - Leo Tolstoy.

"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management." - Thomas Jefferson.

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson.

"The pillars of our prosperity are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson.

"We have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious...it might be much simplified to the relief of those who maintain it." - Thomas Jefferson.

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" - Thomas Jefferson.

A man who looses a battle with his king may be forgiven, but a man who wins such a battle is doomed. - Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth).

"I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Etienne de Grellet (Quaker missionary).

"Conscience goes through the stomach" - old Romanian adage.

"Political blunders repeat themselves, because they are the expression of human nature. Successes do not repeat themselves, because they are the gift of history." - Nicolas Gomez Davila.

"No folktale ever began this way: Once upon a time, there was a president..." - Nicolas Gomez Davila.

"Law is a bunch of words written on paper by people who are generally considered to be liars and thieves. So let's try to figure out what's right rather than what's legal." - Joe Rogan.

"Riches cover a multitude of woes." - Menander.

"Conscience goes through the stomach" - Latin Proverb.

"[Old age] never comes alone." - Menander.

"It is not white hair that brings wisdom." - Menander.

"The recognized doctrine that the people are to be governed by some abstract power, apart from themselves, has not, even at this day in this country, lost its hold... the people expect too much of the government." - Walt Whitman.

"More precious than all worldly riches is Freedom." - Walt Whitman.

"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas." - Margaret Thatcher.

"The greatest tragedy of life is not that we set high aim and miss it, but that we set low aim and reach it." - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

"You cannot do something." You have a dream you have to protect and the right to live your dream is in your hands." - Gbenga Adebambo.

"Increasingly, critical theories resemble rigid ideologies that have jumped the rails, and whose main contribution to society is moral outrage, all the time." - Christopher J. Ferguson.

"Socialists would say I'm a 'wage slave.' But my employer PAYS me money based on a voluntary agreement I chose, which enables me to feed my family. Conversely, the state TAKES my money against my will to pay for things I oppose or don't benefit from. Who is more my oppressor?" - Bradley Thomas.

"What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them." - Michio Kaku.

"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." - George Orwell.

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best (English footballer)

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer." - Albert Einstein.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." - Albert Einstein.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein.

"If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else." - Vaclav Havel.

"We're a science fiction species" - Robert Zubrin. Discussion with Robert Zubin. The revolution in space flight and exploration in future. 26 August 2022.

"Grief is the price we pay for love." - Queen Elizabeth II speaking to the United States following 911.

"Almost all government policy is wrong but... frightfully well carried out." - Sir Humphrey Appleby.

"Altruism's great, but it's not that great" - Raul Cano (Microbiologist).

"Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean." - Bob Marley.

"When we invented the ship, we invented the shipwreck." - Paul Virilio.

"A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long." - Hunter S. Thompson.

"It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die." - Hunter S. Thompson.

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." - Hunter S. Thompson.

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?" - Hunter S. Thompson.

"The value of an architecture can be measured by the number of technology generations over which it is useful." - Tony Lauck, DEC Executive.

"While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity." - Reid Wiseman (Astronaut)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas.

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson.

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx.

"It's hard to win an argument with a smart person. It's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." - Bill Murray.

"Where do these stairs go? They go up!" - Bill Murray.

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero.

"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion." - Franklin Pierce.

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." - George H. W. Bush.

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - Ozzy Osborne

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever." - Carl Sagan.

"Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing." - Nikola Tesla.

"[C++] it really is a crap language" - Linus Torvalds.

"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn." - Anthony Bourdain.

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection." - Bjarne Stroustrup (Designer of C++).

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." - Marcus Tullius Cicero.

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure." - Winston Churchill.

"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill.

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." - Winston Churchill.

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill.

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill.

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill.

"I was glad that, if any of our cities were to be attacked, the brunt should fall on London. London was like some huge prehistoric animal, capable of enduring terrible injuries, mangled and bleeding from many wounds, and yet preserving its life and movement." - Winston Churchill.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." - Winston Churchill.

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow - alternative to The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan.

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticise those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones." - Umberto Eco.

"You can't use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn't use reason to get into." - Neil deGrasse Tyson.

"I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life." The Duke of Wellington when asked what he thought of the first Reformed Parliament (1832).

"Never argue with a fool. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain.

"You know what they say: Dynamite comes in small packages." - saying

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue—"No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." - Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." - Alex Levine.

"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument." - Samuel Butler.

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert.

"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about." - Miguel de Unamuno.

"Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side." - Baltasar Gracian.

"Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t?" - L.J. Smith, Nightfall.

"People's opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration." - Bertrand Russell.