Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

Famous Quotes on Equality

Monday, May 24th, 2010
  • All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. - David Allan Coe
  • All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. - Bob Dylan
  • Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol
  • Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln
  • More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development. - Kofi Annan
  • In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal.  There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. - John James Ingalls
  • The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. - Martin H. Fischer
  • The sole equality on earth is death - Philip James Bailey
  • It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
  • I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Mohandas Gandhi

Famous Quotes on Technology

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
  • The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing.  Not so with technology. - E.F. Schumacher
  • Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? - Al Boliska
  • For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P. Feynman
  • I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. - John F. Kennedy
  • I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented. - R. Buckminster Fuller
  • One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
  • All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. - Mark Kennedy
  • Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley
  • Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. - Bill Gates

Famous Quotes on Life

Friday, May 21st, 2010
  • A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
  • God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor
  • I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs
  • I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles M. Schulz
  • It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. - Elisabeth Kubler
  • Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem
  • Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. - Tom Head
  • In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
  • The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins
  • Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. - Anthony J. D’Angelo