Idealism
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.
James Richardson (1950- )
The Journalistic Principle (sometimes called Betteridge's Law, Hinchliffe's Rule, or Davis's Law): Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word
no.
Anonymous
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Tyrannen dør, og hans magt har ende. Martyren dør, og hans magt begynder.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
P.J. O'Rourke (1947-2022)