All Power Corrupts
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
— Unknown
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
— George Burns
People who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
— Ann Landers.
The best evidence for the existence of intelligent life in the universe lies in the fact that they have steadfastly refused to contact us.
— Richard Boyd
I saw this quote as a letter-to-the-editor in one of the San Francisco Bay Area papers several years ago. I love the twisted logic and the inherent presumptions that it contains. Some attempts at logical arguments for the existence of God share these logical fallacies.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Yesterday I quoted Martin Luther King, Jr. who said, “A man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.” In today’s quote, Eleanor Roosevelt conveys the same concept in a different voice.
We don’t have one big advantage so we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
— Jeff Bezos