"Altruism is the root of all Wickedness"

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

“Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

“Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own .45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter.”

“You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.”

“I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.”

“Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.”

“Even if the world ends, the music will still survive.”

Source : "Great Muslims of undivided India" by Nikhat Ekbal, Gyan Publishing House, (p. 45), 2009.