by humans. Always, by humans-- powerful humans who exercise total control,
and who are answerable to noone.....
tiny.ag/jemz6lgh · submitted 2002
I worry a bit when the greatest vice social activists can attribute to someone is "extremism". As if the fervor with which someone believes something were more important than the actual content of what they believed....
tiny.ag/7lgyxu4o · submitted 2002
In the scientific world, you can obstruct progress as long as you like, without losing 'face', but you take your life in your hands when you try to help progress along...
tiny.ag/parj1bwo · submitted 2002
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
tiny.ag/pxemwk0w · submitted 2002
'Phobia' is the new slap-down word of the 21st century. All you do is have to say someone is fill-in-the-blank phobic, and you establish the presumption that they need counseling and enlightenment-- in other words, that they're crazy and need a shrink.
tiny.ag/jnrgw3fz · submitted 2002
Should we assume that the opposite
of falling in love is rising in hate?
tiny.ag/eviuogh2 · submitted 2002
Why does English language suggest that a wo-man is a type of man?
tiny.ag/dslfubtv · submitted 2002
You can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house.
tiny.ag/kgleh16j · submitted 2002
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
tiny.ag/u3j4iq2t · submitted 2002
Men are designed for short, nasty, brutal lives. Women are designed for long, miserable ones.
tiny.ag/85e1tphg · submitted 2002
Politics, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
tiny.ag/afnkjh9o · submitted 2002
A hen is just an egg's way of making more eggs.
Samuel Butler, English Poet & philosopher
tiny.ag/ba8ign5z · submitted 2002
True tragedy occurs not when good battles evil, but when one good battles another.
Friedrich Hegel, 19th Century Philosopher
tiny.ag/g85ycnq2 · submitted 2002
All law legislates morality. The only real question is whose morality shall be legislated...
tiny.ag/8k6ekozu · submitted 2002
People accuse Christians of "shoving their religion down people's throats." That must be quite some feat, seeing as you can't even get most Christians to listen to a sermon without falling asleep....
tiny.ag/wbugeomv · submitted 2002
"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."
F.M. Cornford, British scholar
tiny.ag/b6fie0y7 · submitted 2002
Always watch out for the squeaky wheel.
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