Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes
sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment
us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the
approval of their own conscience.
-C.S. Lewis

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current
conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by
challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing
institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the
removal of censorships.
-George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
-Voltaire

Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it
and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw

There are two ways to get rich. Make more money or need less.
-Someone on the internet

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-Mitch Ratliffe, _Technology Review_ April, 1992


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice.
-Albert Einstein

P.S. It is my observation that too many of us are spending money we haven't
earned to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like.
-H. Jackson Brown's mom (from P. S. I Love You)

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
-Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
-Chinese Proverb

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
-- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
-- Voltaire

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties,
nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment
by the corrupt few."
-- George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
who have not got it."
-- George Bernard Shaw

EXPERIENCE - Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man
does with what happens to him. (HUXLEY, ALDOUS)

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad
habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are
tools to help us through life.
--Friedrich Nietzsche


From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history),
men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow
them to learn.
-Aldous Huxley

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.
-Native American saying

The one thing that can turn a lazy and content human being into an
overzealous work-aholic is the credit card.
-Luke Danielson

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always
glorify the hunter.
-African Proverb

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil
conscience of their parents.
-H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn
to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
-Mary Ellen Kelly

ORIGINALITY - Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his
memory it too good. (NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH)

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each
wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

(Black, Hugo) Dissenting opinion in 6-2 ruling that upheld federal law
making possession of heroin sufficient evidence of illegal importation
of drugs, 20 Jan 70

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain

To live alone one must be an animal or a god." - says Aristotle.
There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere... ...
If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good."

- Dr. Seuss, One Fish two fish red fish blue fish, 1960