People often say that elephants never forget, but neither do cattle. They can recognize pictures of herd mates as well as humans they know.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust
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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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Empires are synonymous with centralized — if occasionally schismatized — hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through — usually — a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser — as a rule nominally independent — power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.
~ Iain Banks
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Like sailors in a storm, expecting every instant to go to the bottom, the believers suddenly became religious, prayed violently, and flattered themselves that they repented them of their evil courses. But a plain tale soon put them down, and quenched their religion entirely.
~ Charles MacKay
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
~ Audre Lorde
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