Quotes

People who eat one other because of the famine are not cannibals. Cannibals are those who don’t want to redistribute the church’s gold to the starving

-Governmental poster from Socialist Russia

If you don’t talk with people that are opposed to your positions you know nothing about them and even less about yourself

-Christopher Hudgens

For the first time in 2,000 years the intellectuals are siding with the people who gave the hemlock to Socrates

-Julien Benda

The dose makes the poison. Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison

-Paracelsus

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

-Max Brooks

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

-Lord Acton

A solution shall not another problem create.

-Tom Burtonwood

Never mistake motion for action.

-Ernest Hemingway

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgement is to be a slave, not a free man, It is from this fact that the liberal arts acquire their name

-Mortimer Adler

[The written word] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls.

-Socrates

Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it is probably shit.

-Somee

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery