Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-06-20 Jun 20, 2001Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Jun 19, 2001If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich FrommThe meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.~ J. Paul Getty Jun 18, 2001Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan WattsBureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.~ Laurence J. Peter Jun 15, 2001Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 14, 2001One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.~ Thomas B. ReedI have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it.~ Abraham LincolnSociety in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.~ Thomas Paine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print