Bertrand Russell

September 30th, 2007

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Henry David Thoreau

September 29th, 2007

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Gene Roddenberry

September 28th, 2007

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Albert Einstein

September 27th, 2007

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

George Orwell

September 26th, 2007

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Theodore Roosevelt

September 25th, 2007

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Chief Seattle

September 24th, 2007

Take only memories; leave nothing but footprints.

Denis Diderot

September 23rd, 2007

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

e e cummings

September 20th, 2007

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Ronald Reagan

September 20th, 2007

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’

Thomas Mann

September 9th, 2007

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Madeline L’Engle

September 7th, 2007

You have to walk through the dark to get to the light. It’s not free.