Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
-- Timothy Leary

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all...

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
-- Timothy Leary

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
-- Butch Hancock

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
-- James Thurber

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.
-- President John Adams

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars: and they pass by themselves without wondering.
-- St. Augustine

We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do. We do not want that. We may quarrel with men about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit.
-- Chief Joseph

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
-- Jonathan Swift

The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.
-- Timothy Leary

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
-- Pat Robertson

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.
-- Bob Dylan

I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm -- come on in. People say "Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it." I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here ...
-- Bill Hicks

IWhat luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler

'm here to tell you, as a Brit, that the only places you will see a "sea of red flowers in the lapels of British men and women" is in rightwing enclaves like the financial district of London. Many wear white poppies as a protest over the Iraq War and belligerence in general. Many non-English Brits refuse to wear a red poppy for Remembrance Sunday simply because they are reminded of English exploitation of the Scots, Irish and Welsh as cannon fodder for their Imperial wars. Scots, for instance, make up one tenth of the British population, one third of the army and two thirds of the war dead.
-- Cernig, aka Steve Hynd

"Bipartisan" usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
-- George Carlin

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
-- Bertrand Russell

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas … If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
-- Carl Sagan

This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
-- Giordano Bruno

Who so itcheth to Philosophy must set to work by putting all things to the doubt. -- Giordano Bruno

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.
-- Galileo Galileo

In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
-- George Orwell