Heretic-Monkey

My mom sent me this one, saying it reminded her of me. Awesome.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

– Christopher Morley

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

– Eric Hoffer

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

– George Bernard Shaw

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

– Bruce Grocott

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

– Robert Byrne

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

– Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

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