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

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

Grave New World

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

 — Aldous Huxley

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

Socialisation

Convergent Devolution

Evidence Vs Ideology

Idiots

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
 — Plato

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