Commodities Are The Opium Of The People, Revolution Is The Ecstasy Of History.
--a wall in Paris
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History has left us in an infinity of traces.
-- Antonio Gramsci
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All Governments Lie.
-- I.F. Stone
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
-- Anonymous
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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
-- Stephen Vizinczey
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
-- Harold Wilson
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-- Alice Walker
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Silence is a text easy to misread.
-- Alfred Angelo Attanasio
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
-- William Shakespeare
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
-- Alan Watts
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the minds too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
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We are now in an epoch of production-line universities with celebrities paid fortunes to teach eight hours a week and genuine scholars dumped in the bin.
-- Tariq Ali
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill
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Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -- and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
-- Wernher von Braun
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
-- William Pitt
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-- Laurence J. Peter
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- Herm Albright
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
-- Bernard Bailey
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
-- Edmond de Goncourt
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Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est - Knowledge is power.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever..
-- Chinese Proverb
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