Monday 25 November 2013

The Multiversity

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, 
that it is suspended between its position in the external world, 
with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, 
and the splendid world of our imagination.
 — Richard Hofstadter

Thursday 21 November 2013

B Grade

The best minds are not in government.
 – Ronald Reagan

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Minority Ruled

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
 — H. L. Mencken

Saturday 16 November 2013

Holeness

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
 — D.H. Lawrence

Monday 11 November 2013

Undead Canary

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
 — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sunday 10 November 2013

Dunces

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: 
that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
 — Jonathan Swift

Friday 8 November 2013

Cops'R'Tops

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
 — Brendan Behan

Thursday 7 November 2013

Rabble Rousing

I never desired to please the rabble. 
What pleased them, I did not learn; 
and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
 — Epicurus

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Purgatory

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
 — Mark Twain