This is part of my non-ending series of my favorite quotes. I'll keep publishing them as long as I keep finding new ones. The entire series is here. Here are my new favorites: "The mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality." Henry David Thoreau. "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life." —Epictetus, Greek philosopher "Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." Frank Zappa "It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti "By Learning you will teach. By teaching you will learn." Latin Proverb "In the Age of Information ignorance is a choice." Facebook - attributed to Danny Miller "I have no problem paying taxes because roads don't pave themselves." I have no problem paying taxes because I'm an adult and that's part of the deal." Facebook photo of two demonstrators with signs “We may have democracy in this country, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” — Glen Cook (from Sweet Silver Blues...first in the Garrett P.I. series), “Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.” Mark Twain "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) “Don’t try to tell me a loving and caring god exists. How do you explain stillbirth? What was the loving and caring plan of your god there?” Marina C (on Facebook). "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down." Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) "If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation." Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) “Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.” Ron Paul “The trouble is, you think you have time.” Buddha

I've been collecting quotes for decades, and you can find hundreds of my favorites here. Here are a few that I discovered recently: "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." —Thomas Paine "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." —Nelson Mandela "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. " —Bertrand Russell “Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. -Julian Assange If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find. -Julian Assange If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whose hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes. -Julian Assange The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. -Julian Assange Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.” -Julian Assange Every Organization rests upon a mountain of secrets. -Julian Assange If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." Julian Assange “The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.” -Mark Twain No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -Oscar Wilde "Science dies without the free flow of information. The same can be said of democracy." -Charles Pierce, of Esquire. “Noah’s Ark: Because the largest and most thorough act of genocide in history makes a great children’s story.” - On Facebook