Everything – Page 99 – A book of aphorisms
Apr 022020
 

If voting posed any threat to the reigning order, one would not be constantly exhorted to do it.

Apr 012020
 

The man a year ahead of his time is a success, the man a decade ahead is a bankrupt, and the man a century ahead is a lunatic.

Mar 272020
 

No social system can withstand a horde of vandals hell-bent on doing good.

Mar 252020
 

J.B.S. Haldane remarked, a century ago, that Earth could be united only by a Martian invasion. He was wrong: today there would be a large and vociferous pro-Martian party.