Tuesday 31 October 2017

Birds Of A Feather

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
 — Ezra Pound

Sunday 29 October 2017

Misanthropy

I hate mankind, 
for I think myself one of the best of them, 
and I know how bad I am.
 — James Boswell

Friday 27 October 2017

Innocent Bystanders

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
 — Desiderius Erasmus

Wednesday 25 October 2017

The State Of Criminality

The state calls its own violence law, 
but that of the individual crime.
 — Max Stirner (1806-1856)

Monday 23 October 2017

Your Time Starts … Now

The universe is an intelligence test.
 — Timothy Leary

Saturday 21 October 2017

Politics For Dummies

A fool and his money are soon elected.
 — Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Thursday 19 October 2017

In A Prison Of His Own Devise

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
 — Lewis Mumford

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Gentleman Friends

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
 — Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.
 — Oscar Wilde

Monday 16 October 2017

The Stampeding Herd Reaches The Cliff Edge

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
 — John Kenneth Galbraith

Friday 13 October 2017

Neighbourly

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbour 
and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. 
It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
 — Aleister Crowley

Thursday 12 October 2017

Unstatesmanlike

You have to hand it to America. 
It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide 
while masquerading as a force for universal good.
 — Harold Pinter