Friday, June 3, 2005
"That best portion of a good man's life,/ His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." -- William Wordsworth Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Violence
"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." -- Thomas Elliot Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Revolution
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Government Of, By, And For The People
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." -- William H. Borah Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Government
"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." -- Bertrand Russell Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Management, Mismanagement
"The media likes to say it's sheer incompetence and mismanagement. No, no, no. Someone thought this through very clearly and made the decision that good management wasn't in their interests." -- Dwight Cropp, former advisor to Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The Social Animal
"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice." -- Aristotle Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Reality
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Fanaticism
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Democracy
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right." -- H. L. Mencken Sign in to see full entry.