We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Uta Hagen

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

 

"I wonder if there are twenty men alive in the world now who see things as they really are. That would mean that there were twenty men who were free, who were not dominated or even influenced by any attachment to any created thing or to their own selves or to any gift of God...I don't believe that there are twenty such men alive in the world. But there must be one or two. They are the ones who are holding everything together and keeping the universe from falling apart."

Thomas Merton

 

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."
— George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)



"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements."
— George Orwell (A Collection of Essays)

 

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"


Doc Johnson

 

"There are two things in this world that civilised men should not see being made: law, and sausage."

-Winston Chruchill


"The world's common language is bad english."

-Prince Charles

 

"There are two choices in life. Be happy or be sad. I choose happy."

Annon

 

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

H.L. Mencken

 

If you marry for money, it'll be the hardest buck you ever made.

Mom

 

Captains ain't above the law, Captains IS the law.

"Herman Melville's Moby Dick"

 

A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first
and honest people are victimized first.

Even if a snake is not poisonous,
it should pretend to be venomous.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship.
There is no Friendship without self-interests.
This is a bitter truth.

Before you start some work,
always ask yourself three questions. Why am I doing it, what the
results might be, and will I be successful. Only when you think deeply
and find satisfactory answers to these three questions go ahead.

As soon as fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Once you start working on something,
don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.

People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The fragrance of a flower spreads
only in the direction of the wind, but the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Books are as useful to a stupid person
as a mirror is to a blind person.

An educated person is respected everywhere.
Education beats both beauty and youth.

Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and the other one
is right, it simply means that you value the relationship more than your ego.

Being kind is more important than being right.


-Chanakya Pandit, Pre-Christian Indian Philosopher