A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

William Shakespeare

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

William Feather

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

George Bernard Shaw

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Claude M. Bristol

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Christy Turlington

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

Gloria Gaynor

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Will Durant

Uma virtude deve ser nossa invenção, nossa defesa e nossa necessidade pessoais: tomada em qualquer outro sentido, não passa de um perigo. Aquilo que não é uma condição vital é prejudicial ? vida: uma virtude que não existe senão por causa dum sentimento de respeito pela ideia de «virtude», como Kant a queria, é perigosa. A «virtude», o «dever», o «bem em si», o bem como carácter da impersonalidade do valor geral - quimeras onde se exprime a degenerescência, o último enfraquecimento da vida, a chinesice de Conisberga.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Joe Biden

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Christopher Hitchens