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I Stumbled Upon a page of quotes and many of them were funny or profound or .... whatever.
Everyone laughs and cries in the same language.
~ dreamslaughter
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’
~ Annie Dillard
If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for them Mexicans.
~ Texas politician, Spanish as a second language (this one seems too good to be true)
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~ Confucius
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
~ Whitney Young
In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.
~ David Korten
The corporation is a true Frankenstein's monster, an artificial person run amok, responsible only to its own soulless self.
~ William Dugger
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
~ Nietzsche
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
~ Mark Twain
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
~ Thomas Carlyle
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
~ Carl Sagan
I am amazed how many people on this planet are happy and free and never even saw the US constitution.
~
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
~ J. Krishnamurthi
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
~ Aleister Crowley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
~ Thomas Huxley
The world is divided into people who think they are right.
~ Unknown
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
~ Nazi Hermann Goering
My final point about alcohol, about drugs, about pornography; what business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, fuck or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet? And for those of you having a little moral dilemma on how to answer this, I'll answer for you. None of your fucking business! Take that to the bank, cash it and take it on a vacation outta my fucking life.
~ Bill Hicks
The modern conservative is engaged in one man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John K. Galbraith
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
~ John Stuart Mill
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
~ Thomas Jefferson
~ dreamslaughter
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’
~ Annie Dillard
If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for them Mexicans.
~ Texas politician, Spanish as a second language (this one seems too good to be true)
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~ Confucius
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
~ Whitney Young
In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.
~ David Korten
The corporation is a true Frankenstein's monster, an artificial person run amok, responsible only to its own soulless self.
~ William Dugger
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
~ Nietzsche
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
~ Mark Twain
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
~ Thomas Carlyle
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
~ Carl Sagan
I am amazed how many people on this planet are happy and free and never even saw the US constitution.
~
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
~ J. Krishnamurthi
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
~ Aleister Crowley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
~ Thomas Huxley
The world is divided into people who think they are right.
~ Unknown
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
~ Nazi Hermann Goering
My final point about alcohol, about drugs, about pornography; what business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, fuck or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet? And for those of you having a little moral dilemma on how to answer this, I'll answer for you. None of your fucking business! Take that to the bank, cash it and take it on a vacation outta my fucking life.
~ Bill Hicks
The modern conservative is engaged in one man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John K. Galbraith
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
~ John Stuart Mill
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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