[Sadly, this is the conclusion of this series, The Quote Distillery. I have thoroughly enjoyed presenting it and I hope you also have enjoyed perusing it. Perhaps in future, as I accumulate further batches, I will append them here.]
- “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future”, Warren Buffet
- “If men were angels, no government would be necessary”, James Madison, Federalist Papers, #51
- “My family was so poor that if I hadn’t been born a boy, I wouldn’t have had anything to play with”, Rodney Dangerfield
- “No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war”, Sun Tzu
- “What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations”, Sun Tzu
- “Common sense is not so common”, Voltaire
- “In war, the first casualty is truth”, Aeschylus
- “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion”, G.B.Shaw
- “If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn’t be a bad thing”, Peter Lynch
- “The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time”, Thomas Cargill
- “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes longer”, Henry Kissinger
- “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”, Albert Einstein
- “Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another”, H. L. Mencken
- “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get”, Dale Carnegie
- “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries”, Winston Churchill
- “Under conditions of perfect liberty, markets will lead to perfect equality”, Adam Smith
- “After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together”, Hemant Joshi
- “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them”, Bill Vaughan
- “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”, Thomas Jefferson
- “Go to bed with dogs; wake up with fleas”, old Spanish proverb
- “It is only when we demand a solution with no cost that there are no solutions”, Lester Thurow
- “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is”
- “A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares”, Elbert Hubbard
- “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of Liberty quits the horizon”, Thomas Paine
- “The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them”, Albert Einstein
- “Politics is the art of the possible”, Otto von Bismarck
- “That government is best which governs least”, Thomas Paine
- “We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves”, Eric Hoffer
- “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
- “But enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do YOU think of me?”, Bette Midler
- “The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free”, Aldous Huxley
- “Bach is Bach, like God is God”, Hector Berlioz
- “There is so much talk about music, and so little is really said. I do not think words are at all adequate for the subject, and if I found they were, I should end by writing no more music”, Felix Mendelssohn
- “I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves”, Thomas Jefferson
- “The more laws and restrictions there are,
the poorer the people become.
The sharper men’s weapons,
The more trouble in the land.
The more ingenious and clever men are,
The more strange things happen.
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers”, Lao Tsu. “The Tao Te Ching” (# 57) 6th century BCE - “It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever”, The Terminator
- “But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it”, The Matrix
- “The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long”, Dr Eldon Tyrell, Bladerunner
The Quote Distillery: October
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Re #2, the whole quote is worthy of quotation:
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
― James Madison, The Federalist Papers
I liked nos. 14, 18, 19, 30, 31, and 35 is definitely a keeper.
Thank you for your readership, Kim!
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