Quotes
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John Godfrey Saxe: Sausages and Laws
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
– John Godfrey Saxe (Quoted in the Daily Cleveland Herald, March 29, 1869)
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E. B. White: Dead Frogs
Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.
– E. B. White
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Soren Kierkegaard: Minority Opinion
Truth always rests with the minority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.
– Soren Kierkegaard, 1846
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... the other involves orcs.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
– John Rogers
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H. G. Wells: Lawgiver
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
– H. G. Wells