“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.” YearsMayTwoAgeMemoriesAlivePoliticianThousandForgottenImmortalityThousand YearsBernard ShawStravinskyMadame Curie Author:Anthony Burgess
“You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.” IfsMenSaidStillsStatesAgeEffortConditionsPoliticianMassCriticsImprovementGrantedWelfareArroganceInferiorsBetter Than YouWelfare State Author:Ludwig von Mises
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.” FirstsBelieveTwoWarHardAgeNextNationsPeaceInterestReligiousHeardPoliticianBattleNewsFairsStandingIdeologyIslandsCivilizedThis DaySquaresWowMuseDeclarationOld FashionedConferencesFanaticismHostageHard To BelieveNavalNational InterestsNukesCivilized NationsDeclaration Of War Author:William Safire
“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.” MenWorldChildrenCareAgeGrowsInterestGrowing UpPoliticianConcernAffairPhilosopherOld AgeVesselExplorersAdventurerOverflow Author:George Bernard Shaw
“It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.” PeopleArtImportantWholeAgePoliticsOpinionStrengthDangerPoliticianAngerBritishAdmiring Author:Richard Ingrams
“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.” WayWellsWould BeAgeTodaySchoolMotherLeftBoysSpecialGeniusPoliticianTenScientistFortunePsychologicalEducatedImmortalityPeculiarBusinessmanFranklinThirteenAndrewCounselingTamedCarnegieBen Franklin Author:John Taylor Gatto
“Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.” AgeBuildingPoliticianRespectableOld Buildings Author:Mark Twain
“Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsLongDoeAgeMovingYoungProcessPoliticianDemocraticMoving ForwardDigitalFrustratedOld PeopleGlobalizationDigital AgeDrainedDemocratic Process Author:Anne Applebaum
“Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.” ThinkingRealAgeSpiritualLanguageReligiousExistenceListeningPoliticianMusic IsGratefulNew AgeGetting High Author:Jerry Garcia
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” LifeInspirationalYearsEndsHumorMotivationalAgeDeathPositiveHealthPoliticianSuicideAgingParentingLifestyleOptimisticEnthusiasmThis LifeLive LifePresidentialBirthdayLive ByFuneralLive Your LifeCountingQuality Of LifeCriminal MindShort LifeRehabEnd Of LifeRehabilitationTime Of My LifeHappy BirthdayInspirational BirthdayEnjoy YourselfStaying YoungLive Life To Its FullestWise BirthdayInspirational AgeYears Of LifeLife Is Not Worth LivingYou Only Live OnceInspirational DreamJust Live Your LifeBirthday WishesTime Of Your LifeQuotations Birthday Happy BirthdayEnjoy Your LifeYoung BirthdayBirthday CardLife MotivationCancer CourageWitty BirthdayFunny Birthday WishesCelebrate BirthdayBirthday Wishes FunnyBirthday GreetingsAwesome BirthdayBeing Yourself And HappyLive Love LifeBest Years Of Your LifeHappy Birthday InspirationalMy Time Will ComeRetirement Years Author:Abraham Lincoln
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” LifeShouldWisdomAgeTimeClearWiseOur LivesSeeingPositivePoliticianExperiencePhilosophicalAgingCleverSandBirthdayHumanistLife ExperienceGetting OlderTime PassingTime PassesGrowing OlderGrains Of SandInspirational BirthdayHourglassWhite Sand Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.” ShouldSaidAgeFunnyPoliticsPresidentWorryJudgingPoliticianBirthdayPatrioticUmpiresGreat Veterans Day Author:Ronald Reagan