Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain

In the United States, the New Left has agreed to regard itself as Marxist and speaks of seizing power and building socialism, although it is strongly opposed to centralized power and it has no economic theory whatever for a society and technology like ours. -- Paul Goodman

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI", Part IV

In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel.

Q: What's the difference between a duck and an elephant? A: You can't get down off an elephant.

For a long time I have been fascinated by the thought how wonderful it would be if at last, in public opinion on the succession of political and social institutions, the fateful term "one after another" would be replaced through the very simple and self-evident "simultaneously." -- Max Nettlau

You are always busy.

I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free. -- Charlie Chaplin

The category of the "worker," defined in the strict Marxian economic sense, and politically constituted through the revolutionary vanguard whose goal was the dictatorship of the proletariat, no longer seems viable. -- Saul Newman

You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy. A pity that it's totally undeserved.