Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot (via philosophy-quotes)
(via vicariousdent)
March 24th, 2012
January 22nd, 2012
Alas, God gives light to men, and the law sells it.
Victor Hugo
January 17th, 2012
Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
January 15th, 2012
The qualities he [the President] is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outraged. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
October 3rd, 2011
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
September 11th, 2011
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
August 4th, 2011
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
July 28th, 2011
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else’s self-esteem.
Nicolo Machiavelli
July 11th, 2011
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
June 20th, 2011
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
