There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
Ali ibn Abi-Talib
Roger Ailes
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
Roger Ailes
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.
Aristophanes
Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences.
Roger Bacon
Hilaire Belloc
Omar N. Bradley
Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
Hilaire Belloc
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
The Buddha
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
George W. Bush
Graham Chapman
Carl von Clausewitz
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Graham Chapman
No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.
Carl von Clausewitz
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas Edison
God does not play dice.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth — rocks!
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
Benjamin Franklin
John Kenneth Galbraith
Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
Kahlil Gibran
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tenzin Gyatso
Frank Herbert
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
When words fail, the sword is always at hand.
Frank Herbert
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Herodotus
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King
He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao-tzu
Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
John Lubbock
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The only thing that saves us from the beureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Eugene McCarthy
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Ian Parberry
George S. Patton
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
Aitken Roshi
Donald H. Rumsfeld
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told.
Often have you heard that told.
William Shakespeare
The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
B.F. Skinner
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
Socrates
Art Spander
The great thing about Democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
A leader leads by example, not by force.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
In war, numbers alone confer no advantage.
Sun Tzu
Leo Tolstoy
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lyall Watson
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Vegetius
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
Vegetius
When you have cut down the last tree and poisoned the last river, you will finally realize you cannot eat money.
Native American Wisdom
Australian Aboriginal saying
I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
Wealth maketh many friends.
Wealth maketh many friends.
The Bible
Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.
Japanese Proverb
From Dune:
Here lies a toppled god —
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
I'm a mentat. I trust logic and statistics, not mysticism and prophecy.
A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of God.
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
Anger is one thing, violence another.
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
Often I must speak other than I think. That is called diplomacy.
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
All states are abstractions.
Brutality breeds brutality. Love breeds love.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
Tleilaxu Epigram
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
I'm a mentat. I trust logic and statistics, not mysticism and prophecy.
Thufir Hawat
A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
Gaius Helen Mohiam
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
The First Law of Mentat
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
Gurney Halleck
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of God.
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
Paul Muad'Dib Atreides
Anger is one thing, violence another.
Count Fenring
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
Hayt
Often I must speak other than I think. That is called diplomacy.
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
Stilgar
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
Scytale
All states are abstractions.
Octun Politicus
Brutality breeds brutality. Love breeds love.
Lady Anirul Corrino
From Alpha Centauri (game):
The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons, quarks. Each layer unraveled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries.
In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done."
The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.
The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength.
Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself.
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.
What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed has followed us to the stars and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.
Energy is the currency of the future.
In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist. Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done."
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.
The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless.
Sister Miriam Godwinson
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength.
Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"? It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more. If you deny yourself a useful tool simply because it reminds you uncomfortably of your mortality, you have uselessly and pointlessly crippled yourself.
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself.
What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed has followed us to the stars and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.
Energy is the currency of the future.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan
Magic: The Gathering (game)
Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed.
Vradeen, vampire nocturnus (Sanguine Bond)
"What I need is your blood. What I don't need is your permission."
(Bloodthrone Vampire)
Diablo
I hunt the beasts... not the other way around.
Demon Hunter
You cannot judge me. I am justice itself! We were meant for more than this! To protect the innocent!
Tyrael
Starcraft
Look at flesh. See only potential.
Abathur
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