“Any man who is so unfortunate as to have a serious controversy with a woman, say in the departments of finance, theology or amour, must inevitably carry away from it a sense of having passed through a dangerous and almost gruesome experience.”
– H. L . Mencken (hat-tip to Lew Rockwell)
“That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”
— Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth), 1:15
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds”
— Samuel Adams
“There is a crack, a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.”
— Canadian poet and song-writer, Leonard Cohen (via Truth to Power blog)
“Nothing can be achieved without individuals, nothing can last without institutions”
— Robert Schuman (1886-1963)
“Take away the supernatural and what you are left with is the unnatural.”
– G. K. Chesterton
From the grape-vine:
Chavez nationalizes winners,
Obama nationalizes losers…
“For many months I have gone to bed knowing somewhere in America there is a grandmother eating dog food tonight so that some ass … on Wall Street can drive a new Porsche.”
— Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock (Fortune, 2005)