“ Pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize. Arthur C. Brooks
“ It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose. William Henry III
“ I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
“ They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche
“ English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s… Marcel Proust
“ Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. Barbara W. Tuchman
“ Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. Glenn Greenwald
“ An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather
“ There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas… Michel Foucault
“ A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone. A.E. Samaan
“ I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery? Francis Bacon
“ Now you take dark Negroes like you, Mr. Griffin, and me, he went on. We're old Uncle Toms to our people, no matter how much education and morals we've got. No, you have to be almost a mulatto, have yo… John Howard Griffin
“ The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that… Johan Hakelius
