Another batch of my favorite quotes...
- "Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it." - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?" - Josef Stalin
- "Society is a massive group of people influencing, persuading, requesting, demanding, cajoling, exhorting, inveigling, and otherwise manipulating each other to further their ends." - Kelton Rhoads
- "An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth -- scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books -- might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity and consumerism." - Carl Sagan
- "Our part in the universe may possibly in some distant way be analogous to that of cells in an organized body, and our personalities may be the transient but essential elements of an immortal and cosmic mind." - Francis Galton, 1883