- 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 – “Men, Women, And God†(1885)
Ingersoll on Misogynists
December 12th, 2008 § 0
Morley on Unanimity
May 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
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
Quote Dump
February 29th, 2008 § 0
- 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
Quotes
December 16th, 2007 Comments Off
- 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)
September 9th, 2007 Comments Off
- War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- – Thomas Mann