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“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” – Carl Sagan

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“If you don’t think that logic is a good method for determining what to believe, make an attempt to convince me of that without using logic. No one has even bothered to try yet.” – Brett Lemoine

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“Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.” – Richard Perle

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“If [Iraq] turn on the radars we’re going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace… We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need.” – U.S. Brig. General William Looney, Washington Post, 30th August 1999

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“Never have I admired a people more than I admired the British in the summer and autumn of 1940. Even the children seemed to realise that upon their indomitable spirit depended not only their own fate, but also that of the whole democratic world.” – Cordell Hull, Roosevelt’s secretary of state

Guardian article: Britain in the post-war years.

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“It is a new challenge. The thing is we don’t really like musicals. Most musicals are really pants. They’re really not very cool.” – U2’s “The Edge”

Via the BBC.

U2, and especially The Edge, are not very cool. Sadly this doesn’t stop them.

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“Les Paul disproves the cliché that you can only be famous for one thing.” – The Edge

What’s that, Edge? You, the bloke that can only make the guitar sound interesting with a battery of effects pedal?

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

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“I know this is kinda hard for contemporary people to get their heads around, but Jesus Christ used to beat people up with a whip for being capitalists. He chased the moneylenders out of the sacred precincts. They were extremely alarmed by this. They were screaming stuff, like “Hey wow! The Prince of Peace is beating the living crap out of us!” – Bruce Sterling

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“Lord Mandelson has entered St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, this morning for a routine operation to deal with a benign condition of the prostate.” – A spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Mandy has a Russian oligarch and a record company executive surgically removed.

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“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men” – Leonardo Da Vinci

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“I can’t decide if [the neocons] know something we don’t or whether they have a plan for a new world order or whether they are just idiots.” – Jade Saunders, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Chatham House

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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” – Abba Eban

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“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.” – Douglas Adams

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“San Francisco Oracle editor Allen Cohen became Siddartha and moved to a commune where everybody called him Sid. They thought his name was Sid Arthur.” – Paul Krassner inadvertently explains why drugs are bad for you

Original article at The Huffington Post