Brigitte Bardot's Photograph

"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

~ Brigitte Bardot

Catherine Zeta-Jones Looks Like a Woman to Me

"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Free Our Minds

"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."

~ Carl Sagan

The Purpose of Intelligence

"The purpose of intelligence is to eliminate lies and establish the truth. However, intelligence under the sway of passion, becomes the lie's defender. It becomes not only perverted but ill, losing its ability to distingusih truth from lies, good from bad. Every kind of lie or misconception, no matter where it is found, should be dealt with, as there are no harmless or useful lies."

~ Leo Tolstoy

More Liberty, Not Less

"Apparently there are some of us who cannot see that the only future for America is one that cherishes the freedoms won in the past, one in which we vanquish bad ideas with better ones, and in which we fight for liberty by having more liberty, not less."

~ Keith Olbermann

No Peace and Quiet

"I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet."

~ Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

Nose Dive From Uplift

"Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive."

~ Don Marquis

The Truth

"I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth."

~ Marcus Aurelius

Facts, Not Fiction

"To those seaching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

~ Thomas Edison

Virtuous People Are Great People

"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.”

~ Samuel Johnson

Guided By Ideas

"The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds."

~ Ellen Battelle Dietrick, Women in the Early Christian Ministry

Go Against the Flow

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

~ G. K. Chesterton, Everlasting Man

I Object

"I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose."

~ Spock, Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos."