The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar N. Bradley

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi