Thursday 31 October 2013
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Machophilia
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
— Aldous Huxley
Monday 28 October 2013
One Of A Kind
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
— Margaret Mead
— Margaret Mead
Sunday 27 October 2013
Money Puppets
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
— William Somerset Maugham
Saturday 26 October 2013
Doping With Hope
A leader is a dealer in hope.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Friday 25 October 2013
The Selfish Egg
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
— Samuel Butler
Thursday 24 October 2013
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Creatorism
Creationism is Bronze Age science.
Creationists are Bronze Age scientists.
Creationists are Bronze Age scientists.
Tuesday 22 October 2013
Monday 21 October 2013
Sunday 20 October 2013
You Can't Choose Your Relations
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
— H. L. Mencken
— H. L. Mencken
Saturday 19 October 2013
Non Cogito Non Sum
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
— Bertrand Russell
Friday 18 October 2013
Occam's Eraser
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Thursday 17 October 2013
The Lore Of Averages
The average person thinks he isn’t.
— Larry Lorenzoni
Wednesday 16 October 2013
Peerless Pressure
You laugh at me because I am different,
but I laugh at you because you are all the same.
— Unknown
Tuesday 15 October 2013
It Got Worse
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
— Fred Allen (1894-1956)
Monday 14 October 2013
Ends And Means
Religion ends and philosophy begins,
just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins,
and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins,
and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
Sunday 13 October 2013
Saturday 12 October 2013
Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit
Life is short.
Make fun of it.
Make fun of it.
Friday 11 October 2013
Thursday 10 October 2013
What's My Line?
I am a Marxist — of the Groucho variety.
—Anonymous
Wednesday 9 October 2013
The Weakest Link
Every new fossil creates two new missing links.
— Richard Dawkins
— Richard Dawkins
Tuesday 8 October 2013
Bank On It
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
— Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
Monday 7 October 2013
Press Gang
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
— H. L. Mencken
Sunday 6 October 2013
Free Market
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty,
which are embodied in one maxim:
The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
— Bertrand Russell
Saturday 5 October 2013
Political Respectability
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
— George Orwell
Thursday 3 October 2013
Wednesday 2 October 2013
Tuesday 1 October 2013
I'll Buy That
War against a foreign country only happens
when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
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