Renee

“Dark chapters of human history were written by idiot herds taking society’s toboggan down Holy Shit Mountain.”
― Dick Wybrow, Hell Inc.

“When men take it in their heads today to hang gamblers or burn murderers, they should recollect that, in the confusion usually attending such transactions, they will be as likely to hang or burn someone who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is; and that, acting upon the example they set, the mob of tomorrow may, and probably will, hang or burn some of them by the very same mistake. —“The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions”: Address before the
Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838”
― Abraham Lincoln, The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

“PROFESSOR EMERITUS WOTAN Ulm, of the University of Oxford East 5, author of the bestselling if controversial memoir Peer Reviewers and Other Idiots: A Life In Academia, had consented to give a recorded lecture”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Utopia

“Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer”
― Abraham Lincoln