Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.
                                                  —Donald Rumsfeld.

When Bush can’t breathe down in Texas then he too will have to ask questions. At the moment the wealthy can still insulate themselves.
                                                  —Ivor Browne.
(Read the entire conversation with Ivor Browne here:
http://www.theyoke.net/articles/shrink_to_fit.shtml

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle.
                                                  —Nikola Tesla, February, 1937.

They don’t want to govern. They want to rule.
—Texas State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos, on present-day Republicans.

Enron was an eye-opener to naive lovers of modern capitalism. Our accounting brotherhood, in its entirety, turned out to be corrupt, on the take. With the government absolutely colluding with them and not giving a damn. Bush’s friend, old Kenny Lay, is still at large and could just as well start some new company tomorrow. If he hasn’t already. No one is punished for squandering the people’s money and their pension funds and for wrecking the economy.
                                                  —Gore Vidal, November, 2003.

I seemed to fly through the solar system and into the sun, where winged beings were spinning around the core at a tremendous rate. Up close, they looked like the gold-tinged angels in early Renaissance paintings.
                           —Daniel Pinchbeck, from an ibogaine experience.

The fact that we remunerate, respect, or revere excessively those who must deal closely with death (doctors, morticians, the police, the clergy) says less about the strength of their resolve than about the depth of our denial.
                                                  —Harley Golden.

With instantaneous global news it becomes harder and harder for us to deny our violence. Nothing, though, urges us to deny an equally deadly trait, our herd-instinct.
                                                  —Harold "Red" Loving.

Try to season each day with a new perspective.
                                                  —Jonathan Kellerman.

The world is not certain. The only certainty is within you.
                                                  —Robert Crais.

The environment is not scenery that you go to visit. It's a way of knowing.
                                                  —Malcom McCullough.