H. James Harrington: Quote for November 5, 2012

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

-- H. James Harrington

Categories: H. James Harrington

Louisa May Alcott: Quote for November 4, 2012

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

-- Louisa May Alcott

Categories: Louisa May Alcott

Joseph Addison: Quote for November 3, 2012

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

-- Joseph Addison

Categories: Joseph Addison

Rabindranath Tagore: Quote for November 2, 2012

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

Categories: Rabindranath Tagore

George Sarton: Quote for November 1, 2012

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

-- George Sarton

Categories: George Sarton

Jack Prelutsky: Quote for October 31, 2012

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels
Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Halloween!

-- Jack Prelutsky

Categories: Jack Prelutsky

William Shakespeare: Quote for October 30, 2012

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

-- William Shakespeare

from: Macbeth (Play - 1606)

Categories: William Shakespeare

Jean Baudrillard: Quote for October 29, 2012

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

-- Jean Baudrillard

Categories: Jean Baudrillard

Michelle Malkin: Quote for October 28, 2012

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

-- Michelle Malkin

Categories: Michelle Malkin

J. R. D. Tata: Quote for October 27, 2012

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

-- J. R. D. Tata

Categories: J. R. D. Tata

Charles Fort: Quote for October 26, 2012

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

-- Charles Fort

Categories: Charles Fort

Clare Boothe Luce: Quote for October 25, 2012

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

-- Clare Boothe Luce

Categories: Clare Boothe Luce

Walter Mondale: Quote for October 24, 2012

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

-- Walter Mondale

Categories: Walter Mondale

Henry A. Wallace: Quote for October 23, 2012

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

-- Henry A. Wallace

Categories: Henry A. Wallace

Lord Byron: Quote for October 22, 2012

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

-- Lord Byron

Categories: Lord Byron