GREAT QUOTES / 31

Here is the latest group of quotes gleaned from the internet.............Use them as you will...............spread them around and let them speak for all of us...........Thanks.................PEACE....................Scott

In history, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of
custom or those of despotism, harbor no life; life is dependent on the
ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life
and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must
countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants
to live at all. - Herbert Read


The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has
taken place. - George Bernard Shaw


I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial
by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas
Jefferson


It has long been recognized, however, that the special status of
corporations has placed them in a position to control vast amounts of
economic power which may, if not regulated, dominate not only the
economy but also the very heart of our democracy, the electoral process
. . .The state need not permit it own creation to consume it. --
Justices White, Brennan and Marshall in First National Bank of Boston
vs. Belotti, 1978



He who shits in a road will meet flies on his return - African proverb


Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal
as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
- Albert Camus


The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense;
first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is
guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most
precious privileges. --- Mikhail Bakunin


Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect -
Historian George Bancroft 1834


A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul
has nothing to do - Ralph Waldo Emerson


COMPETITION: An event in which there are more losers than winners.
Otherwise it's not a competition. A society based on competition is
therefore primarily a society based on losers. - John Ralston Saul


Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you
out - Anton Chekhov


"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love of it then
you do it for a few friends. and finally you do it for money." ---
Moliere


If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from
below. Our barbarians come from above. - Henry Demarest Lloyd

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