Every new fossil creates two new missing links.
— Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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George Orwell
Monday, 30 September 2013
Politer
When childhood dies,
its corpses are called adults
and they enter society,
one of the politer names of hell.
— Brian Aldiss
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Brian Aldiss
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Friday, 27 September 2013
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Monday, 23 September 2013
Marginal Utility
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little —
or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature
than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
— Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Sunday, 22 September 2013
The Function Of Teachers
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Laughter Is The Best Religion
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Friday, 20 September 2013
Revolving
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
— George Orwell
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George Orwell
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Proselytising Zeal
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytising zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.
— Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Monday, 16 September 2013
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Saturday, 14 September 2013
Friday, 13 September 2013
Demanding With Menaces
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
— HL Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Monday, 9 September 2013
Sunday, 8 September 2013
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