Friday, January 20, 2012

Friday Quotes III

"Ideas do not need weapons, if they can convince the great masses." - Fidel Castro

"...if all of the world's wealth was distributed evenly, each person would have $20,500 of assets to use."- Chris Giles - Finacial Times (want more be a capitialist)

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

“A lot of these arrests don’t result in prosecutions – the aim is to frighten us into self-censorship until we watch everything we say.” - Robert Whelan, deputy director of the Civitas think-tank (In reference to a 14 yr old british girl who was arrested for racism a week after she requested to be placed into a study group that spoke english.)

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” - Maya Angelou

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” - H L Mencken

"Do they? That's because you are not a man of conscience. If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man, the kind of man a man of conscience ought to destroy -- and of course a bad man's blessing's not worth having. So either will do." - Cromwell "A Man for All Seasons" Act two (on why Henry VIII can execute his best friend for not consenting to his new marriage)

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