Quotes

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
[Latin: Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut possit aut conetur rumpere.]
— Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
— George Bernard Shaw

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
— William Shakespeare

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
— Henry Cate Vii

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Pierce

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
— John G. Diefenbaker

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
— Alan Coren

What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
— Julie Cochrane

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
— Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

Fascism is capitalism in decay.
— Lenin (vladimir Ulyanov)

A thief believes everybody steals.
— E.W. Howe

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Philip Zimmermann

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.

History, a distillation of rumor.
— Thomas Carlyle Topic: History

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
— Anonymous

The way to resumption is to resume.
— Salmon Portland Chase

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
—Indira Gandhi

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. —Harry S. Truman Source: None

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
— Harry S. Truman

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
— Al Ries

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
— Joseph Priestley

To be adult is to be alone.
— Jean Rostand

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
— Eugene O'neill

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
— Mitchell Kapor

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.
— Dave Parnas

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
— Paul Dirac

It is useless to send armies against ideas.
— George Brandes

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
— James Anthony Froude

A satellite has no conscience.
— Edward R. Murrow

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
— Alfred North Whitehead

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
— Eugene Debs

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
— Adlai E. Stevenson

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
— Anonymous

We're all living in a chemical soup.
— Lance A. Wallace

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history—with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
— Mitch Ratliffe

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
— Henri-frederic

640K [of RAM] ought to be enough for anybody.
— Bill Gates

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
— Heinrich Heine

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
— Chris Clark

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
— Lawrence J. Peter

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
— Alexis De Tocqueville

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
— Walter Bagehot

The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.
— Unknown

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
— George Bernard Shaw

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
— Joseph Snipp

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
—Andrew Brown

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
— Steve Polyak

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.
— Antoine De Saint-exupery

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
— Ralph Bunche

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
— Howard Mumford Jones

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
— Charles Francis Kettering

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
— Jim Harkins

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
— Albert Einstein

Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".
— Joseph T. Chew

Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.
— Anonymous

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
— Mitch Ratliffe

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
— Henri-frederic

When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
— Lawrence J. Peter

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
— Walter Bagehot

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
— George Bernard Shaw

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
— Andrew Brown

All art exists in the gap between physical object and human experience.