Fools

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

More Unemployment

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians
--Edward Langley,
Artist (1928-1995)

Thieves

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop

Stand for Something

  "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

  ~  Winston Churchill

Well Meaning

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,well meaning but without understanding - Louis D. Brandeis

Religion of Solitude

 "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

   ~   Aldous Huxley

Sour Grapes, Maybe?

 "Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  ~   Albert Einstein

Whose Job?

General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. 

      
The General said, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function... OUR job is to arrange the meeting." 

Sense

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
 ~ Albert Einstein

Idea Origins

 "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
 - Albert Einstein

Argument

 "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
 ~ Robert Quillen

Unnecessary

 "A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
 - Fred Allen

Change

 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
 ~ Woodrow Wilson

Inadequate Constitution

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

What Matters

  “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ability

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
 - Confucius

Just Imagine

 "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
 - Albert Einstein

Excessive Credit

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit
for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."
 - Lowell Thomas

Dangerous People

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein

Make Up Your Mind

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who
never make up their minds to be good or evil."
- Hannah Arendt