I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Thomas Huxley

well i know that all that post recently are quotes. but hey look on the bright side i could be posting millions of pictures of myself. well the weather is cold and nasty and i hate it. not so much the cold but really the snow, it is so nasty all of the time. if it was just cold i dont think that i would mind, so much. you never ever can wear what ( Read more... )

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little
charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Government has no other end but the preservation of property.

John Locke

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and
isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering
whole peoples?

Seneca

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.

Soren Kierkegaard

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

John Fiske

mum·mer·y

1. A performance by mummers.

2. A pretentious or hypocritical show or ceremony.

n : meaningless ceremonies and flattery

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Francois Voltaire

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Betty Friedan

To imagine a human world without ethics, but in which life goes well, it is
necessary to suppose a golden age: a world without competition, or causes of
strife, or clashing desires, or envy or malice.

Simon Blackburn

quagmire \KWAG-myr; KWOG-\, noun:
1. Soft, wet, miry land that shakes or yields under the feet.
2. A difficult or precarious position or situation; a
predicament.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and
imitation without benefit.

George Santayana