Interesting Quotes
i do not agree with all of the opinions expressed in these quotes. they’re interesting nonetheless.
i do not agree with all of the opinions expressed in these quotes. they’re interesting nonetheless.
Questioning Religion
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
- Wendell Phillips
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
- George Santayana
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
- Isaac Asimov
It is of course always best to be led by god, and have him personally whisper into your ear. Only, when it is the devil talking he will tell you he is god, for the devil is a crafty liar. So you never know who is talking to you.
- Theologian Franz Bibfeldt
Like all religions, the Holy Religion of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both Logic and Faith. We have Faith that She is Pink; we Logically know that She is Invisible, because we can't see Her.
- Unknown
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
- Harvey Milk
It was, after all, Christianity itself which tutored the Western mind to believe that it should know the truth and the truth would make it free. But now the student has learned to prize the truth, he has discovered, with pain to himself and his teacher, that it can only be gained at the cost of rejecting the one who first instilled in him the love of it.
- Van A Harvey
It is the truly righteous man one who can discover humanity and morals without needing a religion to dictate that to him.
- Lau
When a man believes in God, is it because his parents, friends, and ancestors force it upon him from birth, or is it because he really has faith?
- Unknown
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams of Programming)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
- Dwight Morrow
I must find a truth that is true for me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
- Daniel Boorstin
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
- Wendell Phillips
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
- George Santayana
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
- Isaac Asimov
It is of course always best to be led by god, and have him personally whisper into your ear. Only, when it is the devil talking he will tell you he is god, for the devil is a crafty liar. So you never know who is talking to you.
- Theologian Franz Bibfeldt
Like all religions, the Holy Religion of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both Logic and Faith. We have Faith that She is Pink; we Logically know that She is Invisible, because we can't see Her.
- Unknown
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
- Harvey Milk
It was, after all, Christianity itself which tutored the Western mind to believe that it should know the truth and the truth would make it free. But now the student has learned to prize the truth, he has discovered, with pain to himself and his teacher, that it can only be gained at the cost of rejecting the one who first instilled in him the love of it.
- Van A Harvey
It is the truly righteous man one who can discover humanity and morals without needing a religion to dictate that to him.
- Lau
When a man believes in God, is it because his parents, friends, and ancestors force it upon him from birth, or is it because he really has faith?
- Unknown
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams of Programming)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
- Dwight Morrow
I must find a truth that is true for me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
- Daniel Boorstin
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Questioning Capitalism and Democracy
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- Keynes
I've said it once and I'll say it again: Democracy just doesn't work.
- Kent Brockman (from the Simpsons)
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
- Haythum R. Khalid
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
- John Simon
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken
Questioning... well it's miscellaneous, maybe it's not questioning anything
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin
Whites will be a minority in the 21st century. What will the bitter fruit be?
- Ronald Takaki (on race relations in California)
F*ck me gently with a chainsaw.
- Heather Chandler
There is no gravity, the earth just sucks.
- Unknown
As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. <~ sigh sigh sigh
- Anita Bryant
Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
- Unknown
No one can make you inferior without your consent.
- Unknown
You don't like my rice??! You don't like my rice??!
- Ken "Ge" (from A Better Tomorrow II)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.
- Nikita Khrushchev
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
- President Bill Clinton
Love is all we need, but I'm learning that love can break my heart.
- M:G (from Sweet Honesty)
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
- Dr. Who
Sometimes the straightest path is through the mud.
- Dilbert
"That's all you got. You got love, and you got death. Death will find you....It's up to you to find love....That's 'cause love cost. Love got a price to it. Everybody don't want to pay."
- Holloway in August Wilson's Two Trains Running
"I'm gonna feed everyone. Give 'em the Eukenuba, the lams, and the Science Diet-that real official shit."
- DMX
"Bottom line: I'm running a country here, and I'm doing it with my pecker out. What I'm asking for is your support, not a date with your daughter...unless, of course, she's a hotty with thin ankles."
- Bill Clinton (what he should have said after his Grand Jury testimony)
"The Poontang Clan? I love you guys!"
- Hugh Hephner (after meeting RZA)
"I'm not a loser. I'm probably a fuckup, but I'm not a loser."
- Mike Tyson
"...and how this dog get trapped in a water heater. These stories and more when we come back on news at 11. You need to know."
-CBS newscaster (proof of how much crap "news" is today)
"Pretty fly for a New Kid"
- S.D. (in a review of Joey McIntyre's, former New Kid on the Block, new solo album)
"Chelsea should have raised better parents."
- J.E. Allison
"F-117A. Crashed. Low mileage. Foreign license plates. Cheap."
- sign in window in Belgrade, Serbia
"We may end up bombing the Serbs to get them to agree and then fighting the Albanians to get them to disarm."
- Henry Kissinger
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet."
- Al Gore
"Strategary"
- George Bush :-P
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- Keynes
I've said it once and I'll say it again: Democracy just doesn't work.
- Kent Brockman (from the Simpsons)
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
- Haythum R. Khalid
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
- John Simon
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken
Questioning... well it's miscellaneous, maybe it's not questioning anything
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin
Whites will be a minority in the 21st century. What will the bitter fruit be?
- Ronald Takaki (on race relations in California)
F*ck me gently with a chainsaw.
- Heather Chandler
There is no gravity, the earth just sucks.
- Unknown
As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. <~ sigh sigh sigh
- Anita Bryant
Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
- Unknown
No one can make you inferior without your consent.
- Unknown
You don't like my rice??! You don't like my rice??!
- Ken "Ge" (from A Better Tomorrow II)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.
- Nikita Khrushchev
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
- President Bill Clinton
Love is all we need, but I'm learning that love can break my heart.
- M:G (from Sweet Honesty)
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
- Dr. Who
Sometimes the straightest path is through the mud.
- Dilbert
"That's all you got. You got love, and you got death. Death will find you....It's up to you to find love....That's 'cause love cost. Love got a price to it. Everybody don't want to pay."
- Holloway in August Wilson's Two Trains Running
"I'm gonna feed everyone. Give 'em the Eukenuba, the lams, and the Science Diet-that real official shit."
- DMX
"Bottom line: I'm running a country here, and I'm doing it with my pecker out. What I'm asking for is your support, not a date with your daughter...unless, of course, she's a hotty with thin ankles."
- Bill Clinton (what he should have said after his Grand Jury testimony)
"The Poontang Clan? I love you guys!"
- Hugh Hephner (after meeting RZA)
"I'm not a loser. I'm probably a fuckup, but I'm not a loser."
- Mike Tyson
"...and how this dog get trapped in a water heater. These stories and more when we come back on news at 11. You need to know."
-CBS newscaster (proof of how much crap "news" is today)
"Pretty fly for a New Kid"
- S.D. (in a review of Joey McIntyre's, former New Kid on the Block, new solo album)
"Chelsea should have raised better parents."
- J.E. Allison
"F-117A. Crashed. Low mileage. Foreign license plates. Cheap."
- sign in window in Belgrade, Serbia
"We may end up bombing the Serbs to get them to agree and then fighting the Albanians to get them to disarm."
- Henry Kissinger
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet."
- Al Gore
"Strategary"
- George Bush :-P