Quotes

To preserve power indefinitely, you have to get consent of the ruled. They have to want, to some degree, to be dominated.

-Unknown

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation.

-John Updike

engaged in intraspecies protein reallocation in order to maintain metabolic integrity

-Unknown

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under capitalism, rich people become powerful. But under socialism, powerful people become rich.

-Glenn Reynolds

Look, what do you wanna do? Sit on your hands for three days and pray for Peak 37?

-Tom Schulman from “Medicine Man”

Mendacious

Given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth.

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

Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged

-Jeri Taylor