“He who seeks the salvation of the soul, of his own and of others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics, for the quite different tasks of politics can only be solved by violence.”
Max Weber “Politics as a Vocation” (28/1/1919)
“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
“since our life must at the best be but a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in the height of Heaven, not a thick darkness that broods over the blast of the Furnace, and rolling of the Wheel.” – John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’; aim at earth and you will get neither.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“When you find a big kettle of crazy, it’s best not to stir it.” Dilbert’s boss (right for once) September 9 2009 strip
“There’s always free cheese in the mousetrap.” Announcer in Game 5 of an Ottawa Senators/Toronto Maple Leafs playoff series in 2004
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
“Remember that it’s no use confessing that you stole a rope if you forget to mention that there was a horse tied to the other end.”
Bruce Marshall The World, The Flesh and Father Smith
