- Voltaire
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
Democracy is the worst form of government -- except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- Barrymore
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
- Drew Stepens
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- Keynes
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' on a ukelele.
- Bagdikian
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
- Anonymous
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
- Robert G. Ingersoll