3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
3 December 2020 John Cusack Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
3 December 2020 Allen Tate How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
3 December 2020 Bruce Schneier If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.
3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
3 December 2020 Frank Morgan A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
3 December 2020 James Thomson Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters – having held out so long against the incumbent – are by nature looking for change.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
3 December 2020 Carol Alt If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.
3 December 2020 Paul Getty I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
3 December 2020 Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
3 December 2020 Janelle Monae People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love ‘We Are Young.’ I’ve heard it play at weddings. I’ve heard it in graduation parties. It’s a big idea and big song.
3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
3 December 2020 W. C. Fields Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she’ll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
