We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristole (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche(1844 - 1900)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa (1910 - )
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy’s Law
The number one cause of death is life.
Peter Krohn
Broken Gadgets will always operate perfectly in the presence of a repairman.
Murphy
The only things people won’t do are those things which are reasonable, sane, and intelligent.
Eli Lleoz
The majority of people must be morons.
Brandon’s law of civilization
Does anyone actually know what a computer is doing while its ‘reticulating splines?’<br>Andrew Swanson
What the freaky Uyog?
Logan (may have originally been Amoz’s, though)
What I have written, I have written.
Pontius Pilate
Like a madman shooting
firebrands or deadly arrows
is a man who deceives his neighbor
and says, "I was only joking!"
Without wood a fire goes out;
without gossip a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs 26:18-20
Any sufficiently advance technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
...as I look around and laugh softly at the pink bunny rabbits who are chewing on the dead corpse of a water moccasin, I can only hope there is some grain of truth in what you are saying
Logan [in a conversation with Lisa about the possibility that the mad are sane and the sane are mad]
“Frendit”<br>Lisa Zebarah
even if one is condemned to failure, does that make the battle any less nobel?
Logan Z----
They Can’t hurt me, I have more mental illnesses then they do…<br>Logan Z----
Don’t make me take away you’re “r”… and “l”…Wogan Zoewwnew.
Sarah Maymer
The more often unlikely things happen, the more likely it is that they are simply the norm.
YZARC
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad
Euclidius
People who “break” the law of gravity hurt themselves.
Pat Robertson
“Wouldn’t it be nice if the world ended and I didn’t have to do any of this?” (Logan to Andrew)
“No, because then my video games wouldn’t come out”<br>Andrew Worlin
“It is not our deeds which men find most inexcusable, but the excuses we make for our deeds.”<br>Logan Z---
“The ego is that which I describe as failing to quest for the meaning of it all, or denying that such exists”<br>Andrew Worlin [paraphrase]
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
Ambrose Redmoon.
Life is like a Nuclear Explosion: short, chaotic, and funny!
Andrew Worlin
SLEF - Svenska Lutherska Evangeliföreningen i Finland
Jerrie Ceplina
I don’t know if I’m sad because it’s raining or if it’s raining because I’m sad.
Logan and Brook figured this one out in Ms. Feldner’s AP Psych class.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Unknown
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Luke 12:48 KJV
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety now and we don’t know where the hell she is.
Ellen Degeneria
Well, DUH. We very well cannot die if we don't live.
JerOD
Sometimes the ability to save life requires the willingness to face death.
First really great quote I can remember thinking of while asleep.
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
~Lily Tomlin
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
~Steven Wright
I never gave them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.
Harry S. Truman
Knowledge may be power, but idiocy is strength.
I, Logan
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
When in doubt, do nothing.
I, Logan
Hate is not something you do, it is something you are.
I, Logan
The two most powerful forces in the universe are that of the individual and that of the group. The two most frequent mistakes are underestimating the former in one’s self and the latter in one’s acquaintances.
I, Logan