Gadfly Quotes
Gadfly Quote of the day
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake, " Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.
... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.
While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.
Pops added, "you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected, " (Katherine) replied.
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.
When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith....
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.