OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

I adore lemurs. They're extremely gentle, well-mannered, pretty and yet great fun ... I should have married one. ~ John Cleese

The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to,—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,— is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.– Henry David Thoreau

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. ~ Margaret Mead

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. ~ William Feather

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Time is running out for the United States and other Western democracies. Freedom and equality cannot coexist. We have tried and, like others before us who attempted it, the results have been disastrous. It is time for you and me to decide how badly we want the free lunch. If we continue to pursue it, then we cannot expect to live in a free society.– Rose Wilder Lane

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
-- Henry Kissinger

In a constitutional democracy, persons owe loyalty to the constitution rather than the government. I have long argued that on precisely this point, American public attitudes are quite different from those of Europe.– James Buchanan

When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds. – Takayuki Ikkaku

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Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why? Some are born some men die Beneath one infinite sky There'll be war there'll be peace But everything one day will cease All the iron turn to rust All the proud men turn to dust So all things time will mend And so this song will end

Pink Floyd - Childhood's End

Funny how small\short a world... was just thinking: nothing to do but embrace death at some point;( the thought came about while wondering why so many fear AI!?.)

"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
Woody Allen

Progress cannot be planned by government, and cannot be restricted or retarded; it can only be stopped.– Ayn Rand

Some people's governments!

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
--Noam Chomsky

There is but one defensible social ideal, and that is a world in which every individual is free to work out the inner impulses of the Spirit, without aggression on his part or interference on the part of others. A State which accomplished this simple, primal duty, the protection of all its citizens, would accomplish something greater than has yet been historically recorded, and something which no State, preoccupied with illegitimate and paternalistic activities, is ever likely to accomplish.– Hanford Henderson