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Ingersoll on Misogynists

admin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:00:22 +0000

The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do not, and cannot, by offering themselves in evidence, substantiate their declaration.: Robert Green Ingersoll – â€œMen, Women, And Godâ€ (1885)

Huckabee and God’s Constitution

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:02:24 +0000

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…

Quotes

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:50:54 +0000

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

Mann on War (not man-o-war)

admin — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:00:40 +0000

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.: – Thomas Mann

More Quotations Than You Can Shake A Stick At

admin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:24 +0000

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