There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

Ted Rall

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

Thomas Frank

The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Henry Ward Beecher

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

William Shakespeare

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard wordsbruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time is Galleons, little brother.

J.K. Rowling

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

Marc Webb

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard