The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Marguerite Gardiner

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distress. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public. This is a natural consequence of what has been said before. Between the workman and the master there are frequent relations, but no real association.I am of the opinion, on the whole, that the manufacturing aristocracy which is growing up under our eyes is one of the harshest that ever existed in the world; but at the same time it is one of the most confined and least dangerous. Nevertheless, the friends of democracy should keep their eyes anxiously fixed in this direction; for if ever a permanent inequality of conditions and aristocracy again penetrates into the world, it may be predicted that this is the gate by which they will enter.http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch2_20.htm

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Benjamin Disraeli

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. (1.1)

C.S. Lewis

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Herbert Simon

NEVER be surprised by your own success!

Steve Maraboli

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

J.M. Coetzee

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Joel Rosenberg

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Doug Horton

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.

Sylvia AshtonWarner