The interesting, the funny, and the sick
A few of quotations I have collected among others.
"Americans as individuals can be great people, as a nation they're fuckheads."
- Australian Saying
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor
"The Americans will always do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the alternatives."
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein, Physicist
"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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
- Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Nazi German Reichsmarshal
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
"There is nothing nicer that educating a young girl, a young girl of 18 or 20 is as malleable as wax."
- Adolf Hitler, Nazi German Fuhrer
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."
- William R. Inge, Dean
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
- Thomas Jefferson, American President
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"Politics have no relation to morals."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Political Philosopher
"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8 to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx, Actor
"Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity."
- Murphy's Law
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
"Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
- Bertrand Russell, Mathematical Logician and Analytic Philosopher
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw, Playwright
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet Secretary General
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs
"When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born."
- Lao Tzu, Taoist Philosopher
"Americans as individuals can be great people, as a nation they're fuckheads."
- Australian Saying
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor
"The Americans will always do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the alternatives."
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein, Physicist
"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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
- Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Nazi German Reichsmarshal
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
"There is nothing nicer that educating a young girl, a young girl of 18 or 20 is as malleable as wax."
- Adolf Hitler, Nazi German Fuhrer
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."
- William R. Inge, Dean
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
- Thomas Jefferson, American President
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"Politics have no relation to morals."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Political Philosopher
"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8 to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx, Actor
"Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity."
- Murphy's Law
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
"Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
- Bertrand Russell, Mathematical Logician and Analytic Philosopher
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw, Playwright
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet Secretary General
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs
"When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born."
- Lao Tzu, Taoist Philosopher