Thread: Quotes

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities

Silence is argument carried out by other means

At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
-- unknown

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice....

It's a myth to think I don't know what's going on. It's a myth to think that I'm not aware that's there's opinions that don't agree with mine, because I'm fully aware of that

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
— Albert Einstein

“If The Shoe Fits, Wear It”

~Proverb~

Everybody’s in despair,
Every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Everybody’s gonna jump for joy.
— Bob Dylan

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -- Teddy Roosevelt

"The intense focus on the auto bailout has not been kind to the dollar."

~Scotia Capital~

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
-- Anthony Burgess

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
— Mark Twain

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours." -- Grover Cleveland

"The surprise is not that there are some thieves in the system, the question is where were the police? It's very surprising to find you're living in a system where a failure of the regulatory system was so big,"

~International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Khan about the Madoff fraud~

Civilized people -- Muslims, Christians and Jews -- all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
-- Attorney General John Ashcroft

QUOTE OF THE DAY



We can't make the economic development alone without development of democracy and the human rights situation.
— Somchai Homlaor, secretary-general of the Thailand-based Human Rights and Development Foundation

irrawaddy.org

QUOTE OF THE DAY



Americans are a people who are extravagant and do not hesitate to buy an elephant if it is available on credit.
— New Light of Myanmar newspaper

irrawaddy.org

"It's not Herbert Hoover this time but George W Bush whose legacy is at stake with the most catastrophic economy since the Great Depression."

~Jon-Christopher Bua, Sky News US political analyst~

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

Ron Paul

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul.

"Should Thaksin return to prove that every Thai is equal under the law, I am certain that every problem will have a way out,"

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva

Thaksin should return to face his charges and win forgiveness: PM - Nationmultimedia.com

"Empowering militias in Afghanistan would be a disaster, only repeating the mistakes of the past."

~ President Hamid Karzai/Chicago Tribune~

"There are no heroes in the Madoff story; only villains and suckers"

~ The Economist~