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- I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune"
- The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000), CBC Archives
- I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, sinners are much more fun.
- Billy Joel (1949 - ), Song "Only the Good Die Young"
- The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract
- We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- Charlton Ogburn, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
- Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
- Hanns Johst, Schlageter, act 1 scene 1
- The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
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