Quotes and Conundrums


"The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind."

Ayn Rand


"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

C.S. Lewis


"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."

Mark Twain


"Written laws are like spider's webs; they hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but are torn to pieces by the rich and powerful."

Anacharsis (600 BC)


"Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."

Anonymous


"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

F. P. Jones


"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

Herbert Spencer



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