Quotes

An awful lot of effort goes into maintaining the

image of blacks.

You want to improve the reality, not the image.

And sometimes the focus on the image gets in the

way.

\- Thomas Sowell

An old friend of mine, a journalist, once said that

paradise on earth was to work all day alone in

anticipation of an evening in interesting

company.

— Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

Being gay must be less fun on average than being

straight be they're playing a much more

inherently symmetric game - Zephyr On Call

Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting

next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of

how angry and scared he's supposed to be.

\- Duncan Trusell

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have

demonized those who produce, subsidized those

who refuse to produce, and canonized those

who complain.

— Thomas Sowell

The wars fanned the wings of science, and

science brought to mankind a thousand blessings,

a thousand problems, and a thousand perils.

\- Winston Churchill

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can

make you commit atrocities.

\- Voltaire

I know not with what weapons World War Ill will

be fought, but World War IV will be fought with

sticks and stones.

\- Albert Einstein

Optimists don't worry about the future because

they're the ones building it.

\- Кое

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

\- Sir Winston Churchill

All happy families resemble one another, each

unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

\- Leo Tolstoy

Those who tell the stories rule society.

\- Plato

He who fights with monsters should look to it

that he himself does not become a monster. If

you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes

into you.



\- Nietzsche

The struggle is great, the task divine —to gain

mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility. —

Marcus Aurelius

Wherever superior races have absorbed large doses of inferior blood, the results have been tragic. Egypt is one case-&amp; India presents a still more loathsome extreme. The Aryans in India were too late in establishing their colour-based caste system, so that today the culture of the Hindoo is probably the most thoroughly repulsive on our planet. The more one learns about India, the more one wants to vomit. Aside from a few professional minds, the Indian people represent such an abyss of degeneracy that extirpation &amp; fumigation would seem to be about the only way to make Hindoostan fit for decent people to inhabit.

\- Howard Phillip Lovecraft

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest

souls; the most massive characters are seared with

scars.

\- Kahlil Gibran

"Tolerance' is the last virtue of a dying culture. -

Zuby

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows Is

transformation.... Everything science has taught

me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my

belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence

after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.

\- Wernher ven Braun

Know thy self, know thy enemy.

A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

\- Sun Tzu

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

— Anton Chekhov

ART is essentially the affirmation, the blessing,

and the deification of existence

\- Nietzsche

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going

insane.

\- Waylon Jennings

Understand: to create a meaningful work of art or

to make a discovery or invention requires great

discipline, self-control, and emotional stability. -

Robert Greene

Governments don't want a population capable of

critical thinking. They want obedient workers.

\- George Carlin

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
— Federico García Lorca

Artists are not beautifiers. They are

COLONIZERS. They impose the grid of their

vision on the curdling chaos of nature. They set

up lighthouses and illuminate the path through

the storm. Our world is as foreign as it is homey,

as hostile as it is kind. Art is our response to it.

\- Josh Dholani

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is

to make sure he never knows he's in prison

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first

makes mad.

\- Euripides

My method is different. I do not rush into actual

work. When I get an idea I start at once building

it up in my imagination. I change the

construction, make improvements, and operate

the device entirely in my mind.

\- Nikola Tesla

They who dream by day are cognizant of many

things which escape those who dream only by

night.

\- Edgar Allen Poe

A clear conscience is one of life's most precious

possessions.

\- Thomas Sowell

Human beings are born with different capacities.

If they are free, they are not equal. And if they

are equal, they are not free. - Aleksandr

Solzhenitsyn

'Success is stumbling from failure to failure with

no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its

purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even

so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

\- Leonardo da Vinci

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light

attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites.

Protect your space and energy.

~ Warsan Shire

Their real task is to spread hopelessness, because where there is no hope there is no serious resistance.

\- Ted Kaczynski

If you want to destroy any nation without war,

make adultery or nudity common in the young

generation.

\- Saladin

You have to die a few times before you can really

live.

— Charles Bukowski

DON'T CARE THAT THEY STOLE MY IDEA.

I CARE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ANY OF

THEIR OWN

\- Nikola Tesla

When a man can't find a deep sense of meaning,

they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor

Frankl