To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napolean Hill
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
General Charles De Gaulle
You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I’d say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn’t be fair to carnival barkers." [to former Enron CEO Keny Lay]
Peter Fitzgerald
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say ‘I never meant any harm.’
Danielle Donoho
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
George Gordon Byron
Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera