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1 Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed. Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
2 To hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good – and cares about any of it – is the chimpanzee part of the brain working. Frank Zappa 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
3 There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person. Garrett Hardin 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
4 Confidence comes from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter McIntyre 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
5 Bůh miluje ateisty, protože ho neobtěžují svými problémy. Miroslav Horníček 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
6 The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Richard Dawkins 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
7 Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří. Jan Werich 1954, Byl jednou jeden král... 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
8 Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. Napoleon Bonaparte 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
9 The Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren't lesser beings, they're just like us. So I say fuck the Buddhists. Björk 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
10 Smích bez příčiny znamená, že jste buď idiot, nebo zlaťoučké děvčátko. Miroslav Horníček 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
11 When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress. (unknown) 2010-02-07 00:00:00 favourite add/edit
12 A vase gives form to the void, and music to silence. Braque, Georges 1882-1963 2009-11-26 23:19:00 favourite add/edit
13 Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity. (unknown) 2009-11-15 15:08:00 favourite add/edit
14 Scientists are those who know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing. Ziman, John 2009-09-20 13:00:00 favourite add/edit
15 There are many good people who are beneficially stimulated by some, but not all, manmade arrangements of colors and shapes on flat surfaces, essentially nonsense. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Timequake 2009-08-21 08:20:00 favourite add/edit
16 Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. Confucius 2009-08-20 10:47:00 favourite add/edit
17 Alcohol is not an answer but it certainly helps to forget the questions. (unknown) 2009-08-02 18:00:00 favourite add/edit
18 We are star stuff harvesting star light. Carl Sagan 2009-08-02 18:00:00 favourite add/edit
19 An extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities. Carl Sagan 2009-08-02 18:00:00 favourite add/edit
20 Man-made laws are an attempt do deal with occurring problems. Not knowing how to solve them, they make a law. Jacque Fresco Zeitgeist 2009-08-02 18:00:00 add/edit
21 There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. John Adams 2009-08-02 18:00:00 favourite add/edit
22 Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild 2009-07-25 17:00:20 favourite add/edit
23 Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation. Charles Lindbergh 2009-07-25 17:00:15 favourite add/edit
24 The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli 2009-07-25 17:00:10 favourite add/edit
25 Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. Robert Green Ingersoll 2009-07-25 17:00:05 favourite add/edit