A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Monthly Archives: November 2024
Any power is hard to hold, and power misused recoils on the …
Any power is hard to hold, and power misused recoils on the user. Mary Stewart
Merlin. Merlin Trilogy, 1970, p 667
If we look back into history for the character of the present …
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Roman Catholic Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes. Al Gore …
We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.
Al Gore
The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of …
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation–and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone’s suffering. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
We praise privatization the world over while calling for more state intervention …
We praise privatization the world over while calling for more state intervention in our own affairs. Theodore Forstmann
Address at Pepperdine University 1994
Only kings, editors, popes, and people with tapeworm should refer to themselves …
Only kings, editors, popes, and people with tapeworm should refer to themselves as Owe.O Mark Twain
It’s a deterrent for Timothy McVeigh. Anthony Scott Witness and victim …
It’s a deterrent for Timothy McVeigh.
Anthony Scott
Witness and victim relative when asked by the press whether the death penalty was a deterent. June 11, 2001.
Experience [has
Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
1779
shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those … ]
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to …
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
Physicist, theory of relativity (1879-1955)