This month’s collection of quotes is mostly short sound-bites.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
[Niccolò Machiavelli]
People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.
[unknown]
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
[Carl Sagan]
Evangelical Christianity is just Radical Islam with pork and beer.
[unknown]
If you cannot question it, it’s not science, it’s propaganda.
[unknown]
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind’s entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
[Arthur C Clarke]
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
[Tony Benn]
Don’t regret anything. Everything that you’ve done was the best you knew at that time. The thought of what could have happened won’t change a thing at this moment. You can only control your actions now. Let go off the worries about the past, and focus on creating a beautiful future for yourself. May inner peace and love always be with you and guide you.
[unknown]
The policies of grievance are very easy to sell; easiest trick in the book. Any fucker can do it. Building something based on hope is much harder.
[Jess Phillips MP]
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
[Andrew Carnegie]
If animals could speak, mankind would weep.
[Anthony Douglas Williams]
It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticise those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the “medicine closet”‘ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.
[Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books]
Once you hit a certain age life is just a delicate balance of trying to stay awake and trying to fall asleep. While slowly getting worse at both.
[unknown]
Gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ears. Rumours are started by haters, carried by fools, and believed by idiots.
[unknown]
Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.
[Richard Feynman]