By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

William Samuel Johnson

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Desiderius Erasmus

A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Know one, know all.

Katha Upanishad

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.

Alice Cooper

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Clifford Geertz