John Quotes

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

I have a love factor with the minorities.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

People are much more important than superficial environments.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u so I banned it immediately.

I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

I was always interested in ladies' fashion.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

I'm just surrounded by awesome funny folks and really creative people. I'm learning, every day. There's not a day that I step on set that I don't have fun. It's a pretty good deal.

Easy, Curious George! Get your grubby hands off of that wheel!

This must be Monday Night RAW, we just got a Wendy's chant.

What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

Vickie... you got some 'splaining to do!

You're dressed up like the flag, somebody get him a pole! Oh, no, no, no, I know how you can get one. Go on a date, with Michael Cole.

Vince McMahon owns me.

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

And at points in the movie, John Cena is actually impervious to bullets!

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.