"Reform is seldom brought about by people who are concerned with their own reputation and social standing. Those who are really in earnest about reforming a government, an educational system, or any other institution must be willing to be viewed with disdain by the rest of the world."
Related:
- Imagine the real disappointment of those people who have been wrong in
their predictions about the end of the world.
Talk about embarrassment..... - People who are excessively concerned about the environment invariably
turn out to own a great deal of land.
There are damn few unemployed and renters in the ecology... - He that will have no books but those that are scarce,
evinces about as correct a taste in literature as he... - Relations are simply a tedious pack of people,
who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live,
nor the smallest instinct about when to die. -- Oscar... - Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest
knowledge of how to live,
nor the smallest instinct about when to die. -- Oscar... - There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing,
those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing... - Law is seldom understood by those who make the law,
those who enforce the law, and those who break the... - About the only people who don't quarrel over religion are
the people who don't have any.
- Bob... - security through obscurity
(alt. `security by obscurity')
A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of
coping with security holes -
namely, ignoring them, documenting neither any known...
