"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

~ Albert Einstein

"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."

Oscar Wilde

As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

- Bertrand Russell

If you don't know what to do call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.

~David Peterson

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

-- John Cage

"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."

- Aldous Huxley

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."

>> Mark Twain

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."

- Ronald Reagan

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

Robert F. Kennedy

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire

For men to do evil, they must first convince themselves they are doing good.
--- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not
have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.


- Red Buttons

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

(Arabian Proverb)

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

- Bertrand Russell

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, — it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

– James A. Garfield