Quotation device, n. A man whose memory surpasses his wit; whose conversation consists largely or exclusively of other people’s words. Cf. citation device.
Mar 022021
Mar 012021
No one holds humanity in higher regard than he holds himself.
Feb 262021
There is a certain type of purveyor of ideas, too stupid to be anything but candid, which makes him useful, like the canary in a coal mine.
Feb 252021
I would far rather be ruled by the football team than the computer club, let alone the debate team, student government, or model U.N.
Feb 242021
Our politics is what we call the violence we wish to visit on our fellows and lack the strength and courage to undertake personally: a neatly-bound, clearly-labeled package of all our worst impulses.
Feb 232021
The only difference between utopia and dystopia is that utopia is nowhere and dystopia is everywhere.
Feb 222021
If you want something done right, get someone to do it who knows how.
Feb 192021
Today’s politics has no Lenins, and few Stalins, but oh so many Kerenskys.
Feb 182021
Every attack on the possibility of knowledge has been in service of beliefs that knowledge, were it possible, would immediately expose as false.
Feb 172021
Everyone cares less for the lives of millions of strangers than the life of his own dog; the modern derangement is to feel guilty about it.