I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

Emily Levine

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

Epicurus, ca.300 BC

We may define "faith" as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith". We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence.

Bertrand Russell

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

Tommy Cooper

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

(origin uncertain)

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

William Penn

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G. K. Chesterton

Three stages of truth for scientists:
It's not true.
If it is true, it's not very important.
We knew it all along.

Leo Szilard

God loves you … and he needs money!

George Carlin

Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.

Homer J. Simpson

The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.

David Dunning

Lighthouses are more useful than churches.

unknown

A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Gary Strand

Brexit: the undefined negotiated by the unprepared to get the unspecified for the uninformed.

Terry Nichol

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way — I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Garry Numan

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

Temple Grandin

I do not suffer from Asperger's, I suffer from people

unknown

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible

Frank Zappa

The teacher has to become autistic.

Hans Asperger

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Ada Lovelace