From Pine View Farm

QOTD category archive

QOTD 0

Tom Stoppard:

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

Share

QOTD 0

George Bernard Shaw:

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Share

QOTD 0

Herbert Hoover:

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Share

QOTD 0

Nicolas Chamfort:

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.

Share

QOTD 0

Dick Cavett:

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Share

QOTD 0

Madame de Stael:

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Share

QOTD 0

Lysander Spooner:

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Share

QOTD 0

Ralph Phillips, character in the MGM cartoon, “Boyhood Daze”:

I get blamed for everything I do.

Share

QOTD 0

Douglas William Jerrold:

God said, “Let us make man in our image.” Man said, ‘Let us make God in our image.”

Share

QOTD 0

Hy Averback, as the Narrator:

There’s only one perfect piece of advice for one friend to give another. Give it, and you’ll never get in trouble. And you can say it in three words: don’t ask me.

Share

QOTD 0

Philo:

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Share

QOTD 0

Harry S Truman:

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Share

QOTD 0

H. P. Lovecraft:

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about.

Share

QOTD 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

Share

QOTD 0

Daisaku Ikeda:

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

And, I would add, not to do so betrays that hopw.

Share

QOTD 0

Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‘Citizens United.’ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Share

QOTD 0

Isaac Asimov:

Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Share

QOTD 0

H. G. Wells:

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

Share

QOTD 0

Dorothy Day:

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Share

QOTD 0

Harry Blackmun:

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Share