Quotes

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

—Ezra Pound, 1934

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

—Arabic proverb

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933

There 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, 1920

From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1928

The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952

If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

—Charles Dickens, 1865

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

—Helen Keller, 1928

Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

—Daniel Boorstin, 1978

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770

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