Related Links Click for links about: |
Version 0.4
Collected by Zack Smith.
On the Public
-
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- - Mark Twain
-
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on the truth.
- - Edith Sitwell
-
The majority seeks power, status, and wealth, and not truth.
- - Plato
-
You, the public, are a many headed monster.
- - Horace (Epistles)
-
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- - Bertrand Russell
-
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people
and use things instead of using people and loving things.
- - Unknown
On the Media
- The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
- - William Colby: Former Director of the CIA.
-
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the US media.
- - Noam Chomsky (who refuses to question the mainstream media claim that Muslims perpetrated 9/11 despite all the evidence to the contrary).
On Travel
-
You should travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- - Robert Louis Stevenson
-
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
- - Susan Heller
- A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
- - Moslih Eddin Saadi
- The longest journey is the journey inward.
- - Dag Hammarskjold
-
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
- - Saint Augustine
On Liberty
-
If liberty means anything it means the liberty to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- - George Orwell
-
One must live what one thinks or end up thinking what one has lived.
- - Pierre Borget
-
In Czechoslovakia nothing works and everything matters, in America everything works and nothing matters.
- - Vaclav Havel
On Conflict
-
The assumption that there isn't enough to go around leads to the assumption that its you or me, and you have to work to prove you are better than the other guy and work isn't something you want to do. Instead you should do what you wanted to do when you were a kid.
- - Buckminster Fuller
Other
- Self confidence is faith in the fact that others are fools.
- - Edgar Allen Poe.
My quotations
- Life's already a bitch, don't make a bitch your life.
- - Me.
Links
- Architecture
- Automotive
- Bicycles and bicycling
- Books (my summaries and quotes from books)
- Computer Hardware
- Benchmarks (Linux)
- My reviews
- Computer Software
- Consumerism
- Digital cameras
- Mobile phones
- Frugality
- My own experiences with certain companies.
- Corporations
- Cuisine / Food / Tea
- Do it yourself (DIY)
- Economics
- Education
- Electronics
- Environment
- Film & Theater
- Food: see Cuisine.
- Freedom & Liberty
- Frugality: see here
- Fuels: alternative
- Games
- Health
- History and Archeology
- Humor
- Language
- Mathematics
- News
- Politics
- Real Estate
- Religion and Atheism
- Sciences
- Anthropology
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Psychology
- Travel
- Work
- Videos
|
|