Sunday, May 3, 2009

Some of Skip's favorite quotes

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. 
Noam Chomsky 

All children are artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of andrew jackson
Fanklin D Roosevelt 1933

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
Judith Martin

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral progress of a nation and its greatness should be judged by the way it treats its animals.
Mahatma Gandhi

Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius

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