Monday, May 05, 2008

Quotes and Notes

Below you can find the quotes and notes which i took during my various readings. I try to add new quotes and notes regularly.



"As soon as man dares to think, the priest’s empire is destroyed";Holbach

"All I know is that I am not a Marxist";Karl Marx

"Capitalism does live by crises and booms just as human being lives by inhaling and exhaling... Crises and booms were inherent in capitalism from birth; they will accompany it to its grave.";Trotsky

“To want to wait, until everyone is sufficiently enlightened, as people usually propose, means to give the matter up completely; for an entire people will never be equally enlightened, at least as long as inequality and the struggle of private interests in society continue to exist.”;Wilhelm Weitling

"Communism [meaning the idea of Cabet] and Proudhonism stand by a river bank arguing whether the field on the other side is maize or wheat; let’s cross and see." Blanqui

“Marx was the genius who continued and consummated the three main ideological currents of the 19th century, as represented by the three most advanced countries of mankind: classical German philosophy, classical English political economy, and French socialism combined with French revolutionary doctrines in general.” Lenin

"After all, a man's life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought ot Action. Without work there is no play."; Winston Churchill

"I adopted quite early in life a system of believing whatever i wanted to believe, while at the same time leaving reason to pursue unfettered wahetever paths she was capable of treading.";Winston Churchill

"A seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East,striding half naked-up the steps of the Vice-regal place... to parley with the representative of the King-Emperor." Winston Churchill described M.K Gandhi after first talk with British Empire and with M.K. Gandhi in 1930.

"Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country, The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country, The Times is read by people who actually do run the country, The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country, The Financial Times is read by people who own the country, The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.";Jim Hacker,Yes, Minister

"War is too serious a business to be entrusted to soldiers";Georges Clemenceau

"Who needs your help most? It is those that have the least, that suffer the most.It is they that are rarely heard.";Nelson Mandela

"Know the truth and the truth will set you free.";Donald Makhubele

"if you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, caouse others to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand.if you wish to heal your sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.";Dalai Lama

"i may be a businessman, in that i set up and run companies for profit, but, when i try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, i'm an idealist."; Richard Branson

"The rock (music) business is a prime example of the most ruthless kind of capitalism!";Richard Branson.

"There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't";

"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate";Thomas Watson

"I haven't failed, I've just found ten thousand ways that didn't work";Thomas Edison

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing";Oscar Wilde

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax";Albert Einsteun

"Computers are useless,they can only give you answers";Pablo Picasso

"Having an extra hour in the day would be welcomed by most everyone, but not the man in jail.";How life imitates chess;Garry Kasparov

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