April 2009 Quotes

This World is bullshit.
- Fiona Apple

…an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, and love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Empire)

So, you fucked this up again
- Our Lady Peace (Shaking)

Just because you're winnin'
Don't mean you’re the lucky ones
- Guns N' Roses (Breakdown)

Sometimes we're so far off the beaten track
We'll get taken for a ride
- Guns N' Roses (Breakdown)

But if someone really cared
Well they'd take the time to spare
A moment to try and understand
Another one's despair
- Guns N' Roses (Breakdown)

Remember in this game we call life
That no one said it's fair
- Guns N' Roses (Breakdown)

If I see the morning hours
I'll have one more yesterday
- Megadeth (99 Ways to Die)

But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regime of their barbarous ancestors.
- Thomas Jefferson

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as that exists our old variety and freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question….The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men...who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.
- Woodrow Wilson

…it takes time to learn many new things and that if they are not learned right, there is a danger a man may lose his self confidence…
- Queen's Printer (Canada One Hundred 1867-1967)

…despite the supreme goodness of God, the nature of man, in so far as he is composed of mind and body, cannot escape being sometimes faulty and deceptive.
- Rene Descartes (Meditations on First Philosophy)

…humans have the elements of control within their grasp, but are too frightened to use them.
- Queen's Printer (Canada One Hundred 1867-1967)

…we should be careful not to lose our freedom in too vigorous attempts to save it.
- Louis St. Laurent

Canada keeps her word and always will.
- Charles Lynch

And if the time ever comes when such newspapers dictate or control the thinking of Canadians on national issues, then freedom ends.
- John Diefenbaker

…the chief evil was that fewer than one thousand persons made the basic decisions in our society.
- J Murray Beck (Pendulum of Power: Canada's Federal Elections)

…the only limitations on how far a student should be allowed to go in pursuit of his education should be the brains in his head and not the money in his father's pocketbook.
- the NDP party (noted in J. Murray Beck's Pendulum of Power: Canada's Federal Elections)

…when old beliefs weaken and dim the people become "charisma-hungry" and want a reassuring leader-symbol.
- Erick Ericson

The human mind resents control.
- Isaac Asimov (Second Foundation)

Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.
- Isaac Asimov (Second Foundation)

…the spell of power never quite releases its hold.
- Isaac Asimov (Second Foundation)

…all life is a series of accidents, to be met with by improvisations.
- Isaac Asimov (Second Foundation)

If it's something you can't help, why hurt yourself over it?
- Isaac Asimov (Second Foundation)

A private point of view means nothing; an official expression of opinion carries weight and can be dangerous.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

A person who expects the completely sophisticated and who guards against it is quite apt never to think of the primitive.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

…zeroing in tightly on a particular problem is self-defeating. Why not relax and talk about something else, and your unconscious mind-not laboring under the weight of concentrated thought-may solve the problem for you.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

I hate this feeling of forever talking to myself.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

If I ask, it matters that I be answered…
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

I don't trust my cowardice not to sieze me by the throat and shame me for the rest of my life.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)