Catallactics Consulting Quotes & Sayings

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode? — David Letterman

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money. — Alice Adams

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable. — Paul Feyerabend

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge. — Daniel Webster

When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment of responsibility. You assume that you own the planet. And ownership confers upon you the right to do as you like. You do not own this beautiful planet. You are simply a guest here. — Leonard Jacobson

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself — Mark Twain

And it's yellow. The way pale yellow should look, like sunshine and butter, mixed with hope and cream. — Katherine Reay

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression. — John Quincy Adams

Principled antipluralism and the commitment to "direct representation" explain another feature of populist politics — Jan-Werner Muller

Which is better
feeling good or getting good? — Robert Genn

Either way, it happened, and everyone was going to pretend that it didn't. — C.V. Hunt