Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Quotes
Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770