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“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
― Confucius

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.”
― Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.”
― Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

“All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

“لقد كان في وسعي أن أقضي على كل يهود العالم ولكني تركت بعضا منهم لتعرفوا لماذا كنت أبيدهم”
― Adolf Hitler, كفاحي

“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since its beginning Islam has been pretty violent. ”
― Douglas Murray, Islamophilia

“Islamophilia��. And it has gripped the Western world. It could be defined as the expression of disproportionate adoration of Islam. I don’t say �� because I don’t think �� that Islam has no redeeming features or that the religion has achieved nothing. But it seems strange to me that so many people today can be quite so asinine and supine when it comes to the religion. No other religion in the world today receives the kind of pass that Islam gets. Most religions currently get a hell of a time. But Islam does not. And people express their resulting feeling for it for a number of reasons. First, there are those who just think Islam is wonderful. This encompasses a huge range of people. For instance, some of them can be on the left/liberal side of the political divide while others can be right-wing conservatives.”
― Douglas Murray, Islamophilia

“The same uneven application of values applies in the weird worlds of academia and the think tanks. Like the media, they choose to close off their minds the moment that the question of Islam comes along. Most bizarre is that you can get away with saying anything, absolutely anything, so long as it is flattering of Islam. It doesn’t matter how soppy, how sentimental, how completely unacademic it is: so long as it’s about Islam, different standards apply.”
― Douglas Murray, Islamophilia

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man & Prison Writings

“Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.”
― Michael Malice

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“But it was clear even in 1999 that London �� and especially the mosque at Finsbury Park �� was becoming the clearing-house for dozens of militants intent on acts of terrorism. And they often had similar backgrounds: with difficult or violent childhoods, little education and few prospects; unemployed, unmarried and seething with resentments.”
― Morten Storm, Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA

“History is never tidy.”
― Antony Beevor, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

“I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis”
― Antony Beevor

“The intentions to be kind, compassionate, helpful, happy, and liberated are among the most beautiful qualities we have as humans.”
― Gil Fronsdal, Issue at Hand

“One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.”
― Gil Fronsdal

“We can in fact remove from our hearts the toxic forces of greed, hate, and delusion.”
― Gil Fronsdal, Issue at Hand

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton