Vera Brittain on Peace
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
- Vera Brittain
Archive for September, 2008
John Dewey on Faith
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008To me faith means not worrying.
- John Dewey
Bertrand Russell on Equality
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell
Gene Fowler on Age
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
- Gene Fowler
Emile Zola on Art
Monday, September 29th, 2008The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
Benjamin Franklin on Business
Monday, September 29th, 2008In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali on Imagination
Monday, September 29th, 2008The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Hugo Black on History
Monday, September 29th, 2008In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
- Hugo Black
Leon Battista Alberti on Science
Sunday, September 28th, 2008When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
- Leon Battista Alberti
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
