Quotes:

Some thoughts on human nature...

...take them as commentary on whatever you will, that is what happens regardless of what I write. No matter how much I try to make myself clear, some people insist upon vewing things through their own lenses and maintain they are both unbiased and completely correct...

History never looks like history when you are living through it.    -John W. Gardner

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom
   -Bertrand Russell

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
   -Isaac Asimov

Brutality begins where skill ends.
   -Egon von Neindorff

If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves share in the guilt.
   -Anna Sewell

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
   -Dr. Samuel Johnson

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
   -H. L. Mencken

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
   -Don Marquis

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
   -Eleanor Roosevelt

The average person thinks he isn't.
   -Father Larry Lorenzoni

In the end, we are all worm-food.
   -John M. Grant

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch.
   -William Of Orange