Some Words of Wisdom from other people

Chomsky on Looting:
"As to the question of looting, I myself wouldn't regard that as violence. I don't see why it's more violent for a person to go into a store and take what's there than it is for a person who has money that was achieved by violent methods to go into the store and take what's there by handing over the money. I think one can give a good argument that looting isn't violence at all. In a sense, most of us are looters, or at any rate we are benefiting from others' looting."

H.L. Mencken:
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

Lord Bertrand Russell:
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence"
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths."
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."

John Dewey:
"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."

Isaiah Berlin:
"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs."
"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."

ALbert Camus:
"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion"
"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

Immanuel Kant:
"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."

Diogenes of Sinope:
"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face."
"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"
"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."

Ludwig Wittgenstein:
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
"The face is the soul of the body."
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

Just some thoughts by people with larger brains then me.
-justin