Archive for September, 2007

Joseph Stalin on Politics

Monday, September 24th, 2007

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

- Joseph Stalin

Mother Teresa on Peace

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Peace begins with a smile.

- Mother Teresa

Charles Baudelaire on Poetry

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Always be a poet, even in prose.

- Charles Baudelaire

Pope John Paul II on Politics

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

- Pope John Paul II

Charles Krauthammer on Politics

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

- Charles Krauthammer

Doug Larson on Computers

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

- Doug Larson

Sandra Day O’Connor on Politics

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

- Sandra Day O’Connor

Carl Rogers on Knowledge & Learning

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

- Carl Rogers

Andrew Jackson on Equality

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

- Andrew Jackson

Robert Browning on Poetry

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

God is the perfect poet.

- Robert Browning