The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Charles A. Lindbergh, "Reader's

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

Eugenie Clark

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Ray Comfort

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Mark Harmon

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Friedrich Schiller

I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with stone clubs.

Albert Einstein

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.

Jakaya Kikwete

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa