C. H. Douglas Quotes

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Never ask age of a woman.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

Conservation is now a dead word.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".