- Ronald Reagen
“May you live all the days of your life.”
- Jonathan Swift
… aaand the “nothing” blew up!
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
- Aldous Huxley
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”
- Indira Gandhi
Water it down
"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job." - Richard M. Nixon
Responsibility
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
It only got worse
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." - George Orwell
Napoleon about bankers
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." — Napoleon Bonaparte
The problem with democracy
"The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent man must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the... Continue Reading →
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