Quotes

Facts are stupid things.

Ronald Reagan 1988

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

"A Man for All Seasons"

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed.

Bertrand Russell

Whenever I look at the other animals and realize that whatever they
do is blameless and they can't do wrong, I envy them the dignity of
their estate, its purity and its loftiness, and recognise that the
Moral Sense is a thoroughly disastrous thing.

Mark Twain

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They're too damn greedy.

Herbert Hoover