Post 100 quotes that I like for whatever reason!

“The ideal and fact of freedom – and not
technology – are the true distinguishing marks of our civilization”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (to the United Nations General Assembly on the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

“I felt that wisdom and culture were immense and that I was hopelessly small.” —Saul Bellow

“There is one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad” —Salvador Dali

“Now comes a war and shows that we still haven’t crawled out on all fours from the barbaric stage of our history. We have learned to wear suspenders, to write clever editorials and to make chocolate milk, but when we have to decide seriously a question of the coexistence of a few tribes on the rich peninsula of Europe, we are helpless to find a way other than mutual mass slaughter.”
—Leon Trotsky

“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.” —Voltaire

“This is a critical time in the conflict, one that calls for a strong leader. And what better title for that leader than one evoking an ineffectual, tyrannical dynasty ultimately slaughtered by Communists in a filthy basement deep in the Ural Mountains?” —Daily Show correspondent John Oliver, on why the position of “war czar” is being created

“Exit, pursued by a bear.” —William Shakespeare

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” —Voltaire

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self” —Jean-Luc Godard

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” —Sir Winston Churchill