We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. – George Bernard Shaw Category: Purpose
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Category: Purpose
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. – Natalie Clifford Barney Category: Purpose
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. – Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974 Category: Purpose
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. – Daniel Libeskind Category: Future
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. – James Herriot Category: Hope
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. – John Taylor Category: Clothing