Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

- Survivor , Chuck Palahniuk

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

- Bruce Lee

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

- John Dewey

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L. Lewis

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

- Indira Gandhi

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

- Tom Robbins

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

- William Blake

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

- Aesop

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

- Milan Kundera

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

- Clint Eastwood

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

- Fidel Castro

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

- Voltaire

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

- George Orwell

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

- Simone de Beauvoir

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

- Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

- Ozzy Osbourne

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

- G. H. Hardy

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

- Billy Graham

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

- Neil Gaiman

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

- Bill Hicks

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

- Bill Hicks

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

- Steve Jobs

Science is all metaphor.

- Timothy Leary

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

- Abbie Hoffman

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

- Adam Sandler

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

I am at heart a gentleman.

- Marlene Dietrich

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

- Marlene Dietrich

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

- Babe Ruth

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

- Adolf Hitler

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

- Adolf Hitler

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

- H. L. Hunt

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

- Jack Benny

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

- Charles Dickens

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

- C.S. Lewis

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

- Ambrose Bierce

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

- Jay Leno

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

- Man Ray

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

- Gloria Steinem