Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Liz Phair

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Jean Anouilh

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Bill Blass

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.

Umberto Eco

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche