Pharus Quotes & Sayings

It's insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave because an extreme tsunami washed over one plant, or the USA invading a noninvolved Middle Eastern nation because a gang of crazies from somewhere else knocked down two skyscrapers. In a sufficiently large crisis, sane and measured responses go out the window. But sanity — Charles Stross

Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life. — Laozi

I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband. — Katy Perry

Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths. — Joseph Goebbels

If there's one thing that distinguishes the human species, it is a pathological need to stay connected. The fact your people will interrupt sex to answer your communicators is a scandal across the entire Common Confederation. — John Scalzi

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be. — Jonathan Groff

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. — Steven Brust

I've crippled more people than polio. — The Undertaker

I say to Floyd Mayweather Jr., don't be a coward and face me in the ring, mano a mano, and shut your big, pretty mouth so we can show the world who is the true king of the ring, — Manny Pacquiao

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be — Evelyn Waugh

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter. — Damon Galgut

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin. — Garth Brooks