Branding: Sharing Corporate Values

Not The Best Model Of A Duck

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

Non Cogito Non Sum

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

 — Bertrand Russell

Occam's Eraser

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

 — Napoleon Bonaparte

The Lore Of Averages

The average person thinks he isn’t.

 — Larry Lorenzoni

Peerless Pressure

You laugh at me because I am different, 

but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

 — Unknown

It Got Worse

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

— Fred Allen (1894-1956)

Ends And Means

Religion ends and philosophy begins,
just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins,
and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

 — Richard Dawkins

Humbled

Don’t be so humble — you are not that great.
 — Golda Meir

Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit

Life is short.
Make fun of it.

Afterthought

There is an afterlife.
It's called death.

What's My Line?

I am a Marxist — of the Groucho variety.

 —Anonymous

The Weakest Link

Every new fossil creates two new missing links.
 — Richard Dawkins

Bank On It

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
 — Thomas Jefferson

Press Gang

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

 — H. L. Mencken

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

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

The Internut

Psychology

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

Politer

When childhood dies, 

its corpses are called adults 

and they enter society, 

one of the politer names of hell. 

 — Brian Aldiss

The Two Types Of Person

Under New Managerialese

BWV 988

Adolthood

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

 — George Orwell

Vacuum Tube

Made In His Image

God has no religion.
 ― Mahatma Gandhi

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

The Function Of Teachers

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

 — Mahatma Gandhi

Laughter Is The Best Religion

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

 — Robert A. Heinlein