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A. E. Housman  In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun  [read rest of quote]
A. F. Shaw  I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.  
A. J. Ayer  No moral system can rest solely on authority.  
A. J. Liebling  People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.  
A. N. Whitehead  The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.  
A.A. Milne  No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.  
A.J. Liebling  Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.  
Abba Eban  History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternative  [read rest of quote]
Abba Eban  Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.  
Abbie Hoffman  Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade.  [read rest of quote]
Abdul Baha  If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish h  [read rest of quote]
Abraham Lincoln  You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can  [read rest of quote]
Abraham Lincoln  Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personall  [read rest of quote]
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.  My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.  
Albert Einstein  If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will cla  [read rest of quote]
Aleister Crowley  "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."  
Alexander Hamilton  The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed he  [read rest of quote]
Anne Frank  How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  
Anonymous  The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon t  [read rest of quote]
B. F. Skinner  Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the produ  [read rest of quote]
Brendan Behan  If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.  
Don Herold  There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.  
Elizabeth Cady Stanton  The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and  [read rest of quote]
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931  The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sa  [read rest of quote]
F. Scott Fitzgerald  The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same t  [read rest of quote]
G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown  The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were t  [read rest of quote]
Gregory Bateson  In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen  [read rest of quote]
Groucho Marx  Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.  
Guindon cartoon caption  Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.  
Harry S Truman  Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society sta  [read rest of quote]
Henrik Tikkanen  Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.  
Henry Adams  There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.  
Irv Kupcinet  What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?  
Irv Kupcinet  What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?  
J.B. Priestley  Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.  
Jeff Marder  We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.  
Jeremy Rifkin  The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed   [read rest of quote]
John F Kennedy  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.  
John W. Gardner  The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi  [read rest of quote]
Joseph Weizenbaum  Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily p  [read rest of quote]
Judie Brown  We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient dru  [read rest of quote]
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)  We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participa  [read rest of quote]
Kahil Gibran  They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except   [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.  
Kahlil Gibran  The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.  
Karen Horney  Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a ve  [read rest of quote]
Karen Horney  Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.  
Krishnamurti  It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.  
L. M. Boyd  There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.  
L. M. K. Boelter  Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form benef  [read rest of quote]
La Fontaine  Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.  
Leo Szilard  You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.  
Lorne Bloch  The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government ma  [read rest of quote]
Louis D. Brandeis  America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted  [read rest of quote]
M. F. K. Fisher  Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.  
Margaret Fuller  Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual  [read rest of quote]
Mark Twain  Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.  
Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"  The police.....always wanting to play games.  
Nancy Astor  The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.  
Nancy Reagan  I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.  
Napoleon  Men, in general, are but great children.  
Napoleon  Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.  
Napoleon  A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.  
Ogden Nash  Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.  
Pat Robertson  It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husband  [read rest of quote]
Patrick Henry  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.  
Paul Claudel  Intelligence is nothing without delight.  
Philip Dormer Stanhope  That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for  [read rest of quote]
Quentin Crisp  The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa  [read rest of quote]
Quentin Crisp  Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?  
Quentin Crisp  The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is  [read rest of quote]
Quentin Crisp  Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.  
S. I. Hayakawa  If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a   [read rest of quote]
Samuel Johnson  Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangin  [read rest of quote]
Sir Francis Bacon  Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.  
Thomas Jefferson  Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)  The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place  [read rest of quote]
Time Bandits  Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence  
U Thant  Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect o  [read rest of quote]
Ulysses S. Grant  I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict  [read rest of quote]
Umberto Eco  I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by  [read rest of quote]
Unknown  DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.  
Valdemar W. Setzer  Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our  [read rest of quote]
Victor Hugo  The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed   [read rest of quote]
William F. Buckley Jr.  I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.  
William Ralph Inge  A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.  
Zaki Yamani  The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack o  [read rest of quote]