Quotes:
"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
~George Orwell
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
~Herman Göring
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
~Bertrand Russell
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
~Aristotle
"The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."
~C.S. Lewis
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
~Stephen Hawking
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
~Nikola Tesla
"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
~Bertrand Russell
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~Albert Einstein
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
~C.S. Lewis
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
~George Orwell
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
~Paul Erdös
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
~Bertrand Russell
"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy."
~C.S. Lewis
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
"A 2 + B 2 = C 2 "
~Pythagoras
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
~Bertrand Russell
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
~Emma Goldman
"All your base are belong to us."
~Cats
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