Fred > Fred's Quotes

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Contemporary culture rejects the idea of nature for the same reason it rejects the idea of God. Both set limits to the human will.”
― John N. Gray

“Roots are branches in the earth. Branches are roots in the air.”
― Tagore

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
― W. H. Auden, Collected Poems

“Strictly speaking, peanuts aren't nuts and French fries aren't French, and I guess, strictly speaking no one speaks strictly anyway.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder