Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/10/14/the_last_word.php
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Compiled by Mostafa A. Heddaya
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
—Salman Rushdie
All power corrupts, absolute power is even more fun.
—Simon Travaglia
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick
Quotation confesses inferiority.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.
—Rick Bayan
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
—Will Cuppy
“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”
—William Penn
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
—Gore Vidal
If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.
—Mark Twain
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, then I would win the gold medal.
—Fidel Castro
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful then the truths of little men.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.
—Charlton Heston
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
—Mike Tyson
One day, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you will be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ However, I became a painter and now I am Picasso.
—Pablo Picasso
If I did half of what they say, I wouldn’t be here—I’d be in a jar at Harvard.
—Frank Sinatra
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
—Leon Trotsky
You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I’m gonna whip you till you cry like a baby!”
—Muhammad Ali (to George Foreman)
Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.
—Richard Nixon
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I am my world.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
To hold a pen is to be at war.
—Voltaire
You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
—Kurt Vonnegut
A boy has to peddle his book.
—Truman Capote
People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought they seldom use.
—Søren Kierkegaard
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
—Peter De Vries
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disuguises the foolish their lack of understanding.
—Ambrose Bierce