Miscellaneous Quotations

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"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."

-F. A. Hayek

"Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated."

-Dinesh D'Souza

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

-Adam Smith

"Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?"

-Jean-Baptiste Say

"Everyone is subject to the laws of Darwinism whether or not they believe in them, agree with them, or accept them. There is no trial, no jury, no argument, and no appeal."

-unknown

"Microsoft makes junk. This junk runs the world and is responsible for billions of dollars in profits annually, but it is still junk."

-David Edgar

"Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable."

-John F. Kennedy

"Telopolies running the Internet would be almost exactly like foxes guarding the henhouse, except that foxes are smart and agile."

-Bob Metcalfe

"Sometimes the depths of cyberspace get disturbed, strange creatures float up from the nameless voids of bit buckets and snatch the innocent surfers with their cruel tentacles."

-Peter Vorobieff

"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men."

-Edmund Burke

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

-Jim Rohn

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

-Picasso

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

-Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

-Russell Baker

"The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever."

-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."

-George Savile, Marquess de Halifax

"Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request."

-Sir Arthur Helps

"Moderation is the last refuse for the unimaginative."

-Oscar Wilde

"The miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise."

-Dante Alighieri

"Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself."

-Georg Groddeck

"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil, too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

-George Bernard Shaw

"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."

-Logan Pearsall Smith

"Say not that you know another entirely, until you have divided an inheritance with him."

-Johann Kasper Lavater

"Man, being responsible, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

-George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron

"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."

-Howard Ruff

"There is no need to show your ability before everyone."

-Baltasar Gracian

"On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

-Oscar Wilde

"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."

-Horace

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

-William Hazlitt

"Those not present are always wrong."

-Phillipe Destouches

"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."

-Blaise Pascal

"I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man."

-Ernesto "Che" Guevara

"Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were."

-unknown

"All the arts and sciences have their roots in the struggle against death."

-Saint Gregory of Nyssa

"A great flame follows a little spark."

-Dante Alighieri