Thursday, June 9, 2005

Quotes

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost luggage." - Mark Russell.

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

"Making fun of born-again-Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope." - P.J. O'Rourke.

"People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin

"If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun." - Katherine Hepburn

"Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus

"Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both." -Abraham Lincoln

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time." - H.L. Mencken

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein

"Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought." - Graham Greene, 1981

"Better is one's own law, though imperfectly carried out, than the law of another carried out perfectly." - Bhagavad Gita

"When the people fear the government you have tyranny...when the government fears the people you have liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted" - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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