Quotes

The difference between a Utopia and a Dystopia can often lie in the visitor's point of view: one person's heaven can be another's hell.

George Orwell
 
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
 
pool said:
"If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority."

Yugoslavian Proverb

That is why we have so many sycophants in "high" places:" Multo tutius est stare in subjectione: quam in praelatura." ( It is much safer to be in a subordinate position than in authority). [Thomas a Kempis]
 
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn
 
"You don't want no pie in the sky when you die. You want something here on the ground while you're still around."

Muhammad Ali
 
I tried to embrace my feminine side, but it filed a restraining order against me.

Some guy named anonymous
 
"We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out"

Decca Records Executive rejecting the Beatles in 1962