Viktor's Commonplace Book

Quotes

Quotes


“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors." — Charlie Chaplin

“If you label me, you negate me.” -- Soren Kierkegaard (heavily disputed)

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” — John Adams

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." —Pravin Lal

“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information! The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.” — Cosmo (Ben Kinsley)

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it." H. L. Mencken

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.” ―Erich Maria Remarque

“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” ― Marshall McLuhan