C. H. Douglas Quotes

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

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.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

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.

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".

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.