Woody's favorite quotes

"...reality is always plural and mutable."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

tags: metaphysics, philosophy

16 people liked it

"Entropy requires no maintenance"
— Robert Anton Wilson

9 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay

811 people liked it

"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama

tags: carpe-diem, change

178 people liked it

"One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government."
— Ron Paul

tags: politics

53 people liked it

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: liberty, security

556 people liked it

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: religion

164 people liked it

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

151 people liked it

"“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
— Warren Ellis

tags: journalism, writing

36 people liked it

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

tags: life

884 people liked it

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
— Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)

tags: government

104 people liked it

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without."
— Aleister Crowley

tags: metaphysics, philosophy

45 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion

313 people liked it

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
— Thomas Jefferson

193 people liked it

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

89 people liked it

"The street finds its own uses for things."
— William Gibson

34 people liked it

"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

tags: christian

9 people liked it

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