Quotes

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams

A good many young writers make the mistake of
enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope,
big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner

I do not believe in
the creed professed
by the Jewish Church,
by the Roman Church,
by the Greek Church,
by the Turkish Church,
by the Protestant Church,
nor by any church that I know of.
My own mind is my own church.
- Thomas Paine

There is no passion like that of
a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau

People are difficult to govern because
they have too much knowledge.
- Lao-Tzu