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- What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- 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 Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
- Reading musses up my mind.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Justice is incedental to law and order.
- J. Edgar Hoover
- The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
- Sir Richard F. Burton
- What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
- A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Swat my hind with a mellon rind, That's my penguin state of mind.
- Opus
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