Society Quotes
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He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Facts do not "speak for themselves.They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Only God helps the badly dressed. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.". (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Quote by - Max Planck)
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death (Quote by - Andre Gide)
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Quote by - Giordano Bruno)
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of lifeIt is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. (Quote by - Lord Hailshan)
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schiller)
Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. (Quote by - Robert Charles Benchley)
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. (Quote by - William Thackeray)
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical? (Quote by - Alan Perlis)
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. (Quote by - Aubrey Menan)
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
He who allows oppression shares the crime. (Quote by - Erasmus Darwin)
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
It is not at all simple to understand the simple. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive. (Quote by - Kevin Kelly)
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. (Quote by - William Bolitho)
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
Man was formed for society. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Quote by - Malayan Proverb)
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. (Quote by - Paul Kurtz)
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions. (Quote by - Aesop)
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. (Quote by - John Lahr)
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
I think the first duty of society is justice (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. (Quote by - B.h. Liddell Hart)
Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature. (Quote by - Carl Bucher)
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. (Quote by - George Dix)
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. (Quote by - Timothy Leary)
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. (Quote by - Daniel C. Dennett)
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. (Quote by - Erik Pepke)
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. (Quote by - Henry P. Fairchild)
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. (Quote by - Orville Dewey)
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition. (Quote by - Thomas Kuhn)
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
All rising to great place is by winding stair. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. (Quote by - Euripides)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course! (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole. (Quote by - Jakob Burckhardt)
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. (Quote by - Swami Nirmalananda)
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. (Quote by - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. (Quote by - Augustine)
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. (Quote by - Theodosius Dobzhansky)
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims. (Quote by - Jakob Burckhardt)
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress. (Quote by - Rudolph Rummel)
Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. (Quote by - Elf Sternberg)
Take your work seriously, but never yourself. (Quote by - Dame Margot Fonteyn)
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. (Quote by - Daniel C. Dennett)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Quote by - Philip K. Dick)
Never assume the obvious is true. (Quote by - William Safire)
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one-- And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Quote by - Dwight Eisenhower)
There are four varieties in society; the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. (Quote by - Hippolyte Taine)
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. (Quote by - Jesse Bennett)
There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them. (Quote by - Moliere)
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. (Quote by - Paul Ehrlich)
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Quote by - Theodore Rubin)
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. (Quote by - Anthony Crosland)
in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. (Quote by - De Montesquieu)
Society is a hospital of incurables. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. (Quote by - August Strindberg)
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. (Quote by - Barbara Jordan)
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture.It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "artto defend their collapsing culture. (Quote by - George Grosz)
No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say. (Quote by - Leo Gomes)
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp. (Quote by - Anon.)
Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy,to make judgments. (Quote by - Richard Mitchell)
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. (Quote by - John Buchan)
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. (Quote by - Lucretius)
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. (Quote by - Jakob Burckhardt)
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Life is simply the reification of the process of living. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. (Quote by - English Proverb)
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
If there is no struggle there is no progress. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world. (Quote by - Werner Herzog)
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. (Quote by - Tony Petito)
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong (Quote by - E.o. Wilson)
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity. (Quote by - Roy Ledda)
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate. (Quote by - Cecil F. Alexander)
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. (Quote by - John Abbott)
There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. (Quote by - Carl Bernstein)
Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away. (Quote by - Mencius)
most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. (Quote by - Arthur Balfour)
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. (Quote by - Benjamin R. Barber)
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. (Quote by - Martial)
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneousThe great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. (Quote by - Alan Gregg)
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. (Quote by - Randolph Bourne)
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. (Quote by - Arthur Stringer)
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?. (Quote by - Madame Dorothé Deluzy)
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system. (Quote by - Richard Mitchell)
The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. (Quote by - John Locke)
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. (Quote by - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women (Quote by - Angela Davis)
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. (Quote by - Charles Davenport)
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. (Quote by - Peter Medawar)
Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. (Quote by - Sebastien Chamfort)
If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained. (Quote by - Friedrich Hebbel)
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. (Quote by - J.m. Roberts)
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. (Quote by - E.w. Howe)
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Quote by - Ivan Illich)
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. (Quote by - Henry Kaiser)
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death (Quote by - Paul Ehrlich)
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. (Quote by - Rollo May)
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Quote by - Ivan Illich)
Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. (Quote by - Scott Orville Bergren)
the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientificdevelopment, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold. (Quote by - Bertrand De Jouvenal)
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schiller)
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. (Quote by - John Fischer)
Mere facts are for children only. As they begin to point towards conclusions they become food for men. (Quote by - Edmund Selous)
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. (Quote by - Richard Mitchell)
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. (Quote by - Thomas Szas)
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. (Quote by - Benjamin Rush)
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)
Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. (Quote by - William Randolph Hearst)
But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends Of free thoughts in his travels for variety, He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends, That without any danger of a riot, he Might for long lying make himself amends; And singing as he sung in his warm youth, Agree to a short armistice with truth. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. (Quote by - Brendan Gill)
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. (Quote by - James Henry Breasted)
Punishment is now unfashionable because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
If the gods do evil then they are not gods. (Quote by - Euripides)
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. (Quote by - Henry George)
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. (Quote by - James T. Ellison)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Quote by - Greek proverb)
Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off. (Quote by - Stewart H. Holbrook)
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? (Quote by - John Ball)
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Only great minds can afford a simple style. (Quote by - Stendhal)
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance. (Quote by - B.h. Liddell Hart)
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. (Quote by - James Fenimore Cooper)
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut. (Quote by - Daniel Greenberg)
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discoveryof this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible. (Quote by - P.r. Bell)
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. (Quote by - William Of Conches)
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
Peace is a natural effect of trade. (Quote by - De Montesquieu)
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sinsare invented nonsense. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. (Quote by - John Morley)
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Quote by - Joshua J. Marine)
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. (Quote by - Lucan)
Every manshould periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind. (Quote by - St. John Ervine)
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. (Quote by - Greg Egan)
If everything's under control, you're going too slow. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things. (Quote by - Richard W. Livingston)
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. (Quote by - Ernst Mayr)
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits? (Quote by - Richard Mitchell)
Without speculation there is no good and original observation. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. (Quote by - John Haynes Holmes)
It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. (Quote by - Aesop)
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. (Quote by - Johann Von Goethe)
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson )
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional wholeis a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. (Quote by - John Milton)
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. (Quote by - Lord Halifax)
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. (Quote by - Brock Chisolm)
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schiller)
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
