Wit & Wisdom

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy to be acted out under the guise of virtue.” Psychologist Erich Fromm, quoted in The Times “A good way to invent the future is to predict it.” Internet pioneer John Perry Barlow, quoted in The Guardian “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, beautiful old people are works of art.” Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted on The Browser “One of the rules of leadership is that it should break the rules.” Charles Moore in The Daily Telegraph “The will alone is always a whore.” Martin Luther, quoted in The Wall Street Journal “When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.” Philosopher Lao-tzu, quoted in the London Review of Books “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” Astrophysicist Neil degrasse Tyson, quoted on Forward.com “Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.” Agatha Christie, quoted in The Wall Street Journal