It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s Law into account.
   -Douglas Hofstadter

Never confuse motion with action.
   -Benjamin Franklin

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
   -H. L. Mencken

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
   -Robertson Davies

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
   -E. B. White

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.
   -Anonymous

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
   -Douglas Adams

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
   -Frank Herbert

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
   -G. H. Hardy

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
   -Alexandre Dumas

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
   -Edward P. Tryon

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
   -Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
   -Whitney Young

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.
   -Unkown

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
   -Robert Frost