The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.\n\n>-- Stanley Kubrick 
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.\n\n>-- Paul Valiry
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.\n\n>-- Mao Tse-tung
It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.\n\n>-- Walter Bagehot
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.\n\n>-- Charles Peters
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.\n\n>-- Eugene McCarthy
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.\n\n>-- Thomas Alva Edison
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
Poetry builds a great truth out of many small lies. Politics builds a great lie out of many small truths.\n\n>-- Paul Lutus
As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.\n\n>-- John Wheeler
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.\n\n>-- T. S. Eliot
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.\n\n>-- Bertrand Russell
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.\n\n>-- Niels Bohr
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.\n\n>-- Galileo Galilei
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\n\n>-- Mahatma Gandhi
In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven.\n\n>-- Kurt Godel
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.\n\n>-- Alan Kay
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.\n\n>-- Native American Proverb
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.\n\n>-- Voltaire
Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans.\n\n>-- John Lennon
Be careful while reading health books, you might die of a misprint.\n\n>-- Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.\n\n>-- Mark Twain
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.\n\n>-- Chinese Proverb
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.\n\n>-- Florynce R. Kennedy
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists.\n\n>-- Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.\n\n>-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.\n\n>-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Truth never damages a cause that is just.\n\n>-- Mahatma Gandhi
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.\n\n>-- Groucho Marx
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.\n\n>-- Albert Einstein
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.\n\n>-- Paul Lutus
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.\n\n>-- Karl Popper
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.\n\n>-- Niels Bohr
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.\n\n>-- Sir Winston Churchill
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.\n\n>-- Aristotle
Only the educated are free.\n\n>-- Epictetus
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.\n\n>-- Mark Twain
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.\n\n>-- Seneca
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.\n\n>-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.\n\n>-- Isaac Asimov
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.\n\n>-- Socrates
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.\n\n>-- Confucius
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.\n\n>-- George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.\n\n>-- James Joyce
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.\n\n>-- Niels Bohr
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.\n\n>-- Oscar Wilde
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.\n\n>-- Ernest Rutherford
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'\n\n>-- Isaac Asimov
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.\n\n>-- Hippocrates
He who would travel happily must travel light.\n\n>-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.\n\n>-- Clifton Fadiman
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.\n\n>-- Henry J. Tillman
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' \n>\n>-- Isaac Asimov
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.\n>\n>-- Douglas Adams 
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.\n>\n>-- Douglas Adams
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.\n>\n>-- Groucho Marx
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.\n>\n>-- Sir Winston Churchill 
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.\n>\n>-- Sir Winston Churchill 
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.\n>\n>-- Sir Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.\n>\n>-- Sir Winston Churchill
He who would travel happily must travel light.\n>\n>-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.\n>\n>-- Clifton Fadiman
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.\n>\n>-- Colette 
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\n>\n>-- George Moore
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.\n>\n> Henry J. Tillman
I will master something, then the creativity will come. \n>\n>-- Japanese Proverb
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.\n>\n>-- Scott Adams
The soup of human kindness needs to be getting people off the streets, not giving them a reason to stay on the streets. \n>\n>-- John Bird 
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved through understanding. \n>\n>-- Albert Einstein
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it? \n>\n>-- Steven Wright