An Epitaph

"Life, not death, is the great adventure."

- Sherwood Anderson's epitaph

Men of Zeal

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

 

- Justice Louis Brandeis

Action

Action is the foundational key to all success.

- Pablo Picasso

Perception

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

- Hubert Humphrey

Carlin Insight

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

 

-- George Carlin

Herd Instincts

“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.”

 

Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten

A Mantra

No tolerance for intolerance.

 

No apologies for being free.

The West

"A culture that gave the world the novel; the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert; and the paintings of Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Rembrandt does not need lessons from societies whose idea of heaven, peopled with female virgins, resembles a cosmic brothel. Nor does the West need lectures on the superior virtue of societies in which women are kept in subjection under sharia, endure genital mutilation, are stoned to death for alleged adultery, and are married off against their will at the age of nine; societies that deny the rights of supposedly lower castes; societies that execute homosexuals and apostates. The West has no use for sanctimonious homilies from societies that cannot provide clean drinking water or sewage systems, that make no provisions for the handicapped, and that leave 40 to 50 percent of their citizens illiterate."

Excerpt from "Why the West Is Best" by Ibn Warraq.

Bram Stokers Chair II (Sam Taylor Wood)