Showing posts with label rebellion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rebellion. Show all posts

11 October 2009

An Interesting quote

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
—Isaac Asimov

Sort of like the Ambrose Bierce Quote I like:

PATRIOTISM, n.
Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.


Which leads to
PATRIOT, n.
One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.