"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
- Mark Twain


"I was the only one left in the tomb then. It was sort of peaceful. I sort of liked it, in a way. It was so nice and peaceful. Then, all of a sudden, you'd never guess what I saw on the wall. Another 'Fuck you.' It was written with a red crayon or something, right under the glass part of the wall, under the stones.

"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetary, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact."

The Catcher In The Rye
J.D. Salinger

"Some people have a large circle of friends, while others have only friends that they like."
- Unknown

Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): "Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?"
Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea."

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."
- Adlai Stevenson

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

Philosophy

"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell

"Whenever people agree with me I feel I must be wrong."
- Oscar Wilde

"Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair but it happens. Some people drown."
- Stephen King, Stand By Me

"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
- Graham Greene

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
- Sigmund Freud

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
- Mark Twain

"In the long run we are all dead."
- John Maynard Keynes

"The grass is always greener in a cemetary."
- Amanda Gonzalez

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
- Donald R. Perry Marquis

Technology

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn

Religion

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
- Buddha

"Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- Ambrose Bierce

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
- Albert Einstein

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the New, he would be insane."
- Robert G. Ingersoll