Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Christopher Lasch

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Anon.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Daniel Keys Moran

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.

Enrique Iglesias

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Henry Rollins

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

You can observe a lot by watching.

Yogi Berra

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Charles Polanyi

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

John Quinton

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny.

Carolyn Murphy