If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

K. Eric Drexler

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Antonia Fraser

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

Charles Baudelaire

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Bell Hooks

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain

To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann, Lectures on Educati

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Groucho Marx

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Terry Pratchett

Not every day is going to offer us a chance to save somebody's life, but every day offers us an opportunity to affect one.

Mark Bezos

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Tupac Shakur

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Gary Lineker

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Lafcadio Hearn