C. H. Douglas Quotes

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

This must be Thursday, ' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Life is wasted on the living.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Don't Panic.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

If I ever meet myself, ' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

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

Ow! My brains!

What's up?" [asked Ford.]"I don't know, " said Marvin, "I've never been there.

My capacity for happiness, " he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist, " says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment."I've seen it. It's rubbish, " said Zaphod, "nothing but a gnab gib."A what?"Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur"Well mine's better." —Ford

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah, ” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?""Ask a glass of water!

Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Alltami (n.)The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

Don't panic and carry a towel

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.

We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.