It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl R. Popper

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Liz Phair

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The CrackUp

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Charles Montesquieu

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Geronimo

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Reed Hastings

It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!

Mehmet Murat ildan