One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
-Emily Dickinson

Humans attempt to impose their own sense of morality where it has no place. If you consider all killing to be evil then by rights this world should be considered a place drenched in evil. -Unknown

“I don’t discriminate, I hate everyone equally.” -Unknown

“The devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” -Unknown

“As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity; I collected some of their Proverbs.” William Blake (1757 - 1827)

“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Pagan. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.”-Unknown

“Here's to you and here's to me
I pray that friends we'll always be,
but if by chance we disagree,
the heck with you and here's to me!” -Irish Toast

“There will be two dates on your tomb stone, and all your friends will read them, but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between them.” -Unknown

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” -Bilbo Baggins, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Winners never talk about glorious victories. That's because they're the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterwards. It's only the losers who have glorious victories.” -Terry Pratchett

“The world doesn't stop being funny when people die, nor does it cease being serious when people laugh.”-Unknown

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” -- E.E. Cummings

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." -Abbott Joseph Liebling

Statism: The argument that the only sure way of protecting oneself against violence, aggression and coercion is to help institute and continually support a vast, monopolistic apparatus of institutionalized violence, aggression and coercion. - J.B. Wisniewski

"If a youth is not a liberal, he has no heart. If a man is not a conservative, he has no brain." -unknown

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. -Karl Marx

"Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?" -a friend of Albert Einstein

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." –Arthur Schopenhauer

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. -James Madison

The idealistic impulse to abolish rank and ranking is futile because people are unequal in their realized talents and abilities. This inequality has been evident since the first time two humans raced on the plains of Africa: one won, the other lost. Pity the loser, except that he probably went off and invented the spear. –Robert W. Fuller

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. -Confucius

I will not be concerned at other men not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. -Confucius

He, who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. -Confucius

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -Confucius

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." -Thomas Paine

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -Confucius

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Confucius

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu

Four seasons come, four seasons go, all things ebb, all things flow. -unknown

Duty is heavy as a mountain but death is lighter than a feather. –Japanese Proverb

You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it; life has a flavor the protected will never know. -unknown

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. -unknown