Heretic-Monkey

I was not that surprised to read here that Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to be more in line with the Bible. I’m unsurprised since the religious right is so cozy with him. What I’m interested in is that these same religious people are appalled that Iran has done the same thing with their country. The sheer hypocrisy of these people never ceases to amaze…

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

– John Buchan

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

– H. L. Mencken

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

– David Brin

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

– Thomas Jefferson

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

– Thomas Mann

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

– H. L. Mencken

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

– Doug Larson

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

– Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in “Foundation”

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

– Sir Frederick G. Banting

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

– Aristotle

A cult is a religion with no political power.

– Tom Wolfe

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

– Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

– George Bernard Shaw

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

– Jean Giraudoux

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

– Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

– Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

– Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

– Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

– Unknown

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

– Robert A. Humphrey

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’

– Steven Wright

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony.

– Robert Benchley

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

– George F. Will