"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."

“What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”

Source : Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

“The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.”

“Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.”

Source : "The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages" by Mary Manning Cleveland, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 10, 2014.

“The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.”

“If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.”

“The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers

“The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.”

“I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.”