• "Men should not know how their laws or sausages are made".................Bismarck
• "The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proven wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right" ...George Orwell
• "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standard hindrance to human advancement" ................. J.S. Mill
• "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives" .................. Abba Eban
• "The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason"...........Bertrand Russell
• " 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober' "................ G.K. Chesterton
• "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there’s no river" ................ Nikita Krushchev
• "A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing" ...... Fredk. Sawyer
• Sam Goldwyn, the famous movie producer, when warned that the play he wished to make into a film had lesbians as central characters, countered: "No problem. We’ll make them Albanians."
• "Man is human in the same way a chicken can fly: both need a good boot in the ass to get them there." (?)
• "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs." (?)
• Peter de Vries on sex manuals: .......... "Easier done than said."
• Robert Surtees on gourmands: "They dig their graves with their teeth."
• "Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied." ............ Bismarck
• When pressed on his deathbed by his confessor to denounce the devil, Voltaire replied: "Is this a time to make enemies?"
• "It's not the men in my life that count; it's the life in my men" ............ Mae West
• "In an autocracy, one person has his way: in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way" ............. Celia Green
• "A communist is one who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world." ......... anon.
• "What all men speak well of, look critically into; what all men condemn, examine first before you decide" (Confucius)
• "Neglect of historical knowledge is to a nation what the loss of memory is to a man" (W. Stubbs)
• "God cannot alter the past; historians can" (Samuel Butler)
• "Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity." (Nietzsche)
• "Politicians are just like diapers. They need to be changed often--and for the same reason." (unknown)
• "The extension of the privileges of women is the fundamental cause of all social progress" (Charles Fourier)
• "The destiny of mankind is not to turn towards Heaven, but to progress on this earth and for this earth, by means of intelligence and reason." (Diderot)
• "A censor is a pencil in human shape, or a human being turned into a pencil; an incarnate line through the products of the mind, a crocodile that lurks by the banks of the stream of ideas and bites off the heads of the writers swimming in it." (Eberhard Ultra)
• "The further back you look, the further forward you can see." (Winston Churchill)
• " There is nothing more servile, despicable, cowardly and narrow-minded than a terrorist"(Chateaubriand)
• " In a place where there are no human beings, strive to be one"(ancient Hebrew moral maxim)
• "The Frenchman wishes to have no superiors. The English wish to have inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him in anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him in satisfaction."(de Tocqueville)
• " A German joke is no laughing matter" (Mark Twain)

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