Archive for July, 2007

Randolph Bourne on Society

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

- Randolph Bourne

Robert Orben on Government

Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.

- Robert Orben

John Stuart Mill on Politics

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

- John Stuart Mill

Arnold H. Glasow on Business

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

- Arnold H. Glasow

Galileo Galilei on Nature

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

- Galileo Galilei

Edgard Varese on Art

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

- Edgard Varese

Holbrook Jackson on Age

No man is ever old enough to know better.

- Holbrook Jackson

Muriel Spark on Knowledge & Learning

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

- Muriel Spark

Logan P. Smith on Age

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

- Logan P. Smith

Thomas J. Watson on Business

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

- Thomas J. Watson