Category: Quote of the Day

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis

“We’re all going to die, but three of us are going to do something” – Tom Burnett, an airline passenger on 9/11/01, just before engaging the terrorists on Flight 93

“On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” – Chuck Palahniuk

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe." – Germaine Greer

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” – The Dalai Lama, in The Seattle Times, May 15, 2001

“I will print money today so that people can survive.” – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, explaining the 1,800% annual inflation rate of the Zimbabwean dollar.(As quoted in Michael Panzner’s book, “Financial Armageddon“)

"In regione caecorum rex est luscus" (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.) Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536), Adagia (III, IV, 96)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." – Frederick Douglass

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." – General George S. Patton.

“…To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state’s totalitarian reach.” – Jeff Snyder, “A Nation of Cowards“

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.” – Washington Irving

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood; And fired the shot heard round the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." – The Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII, of England)