Do you know, I think that Dr. Swift was silly to laugh about Laputa.
I believe it is a mistake to make a mock of people, just because they
think. There are ninety thousand people in this world who do not
think, for every one who does, and these people hate the thinkers
like poison. Even if some thinkers are fanciful, it is wrong to make
fun of them for it. Better to think about cucumbers even, than not
to think at all.
-- T.H. White
I believe it is a mistake to make a mock of people, just because they
think. There are ninety thousand people in this world who do not
think, for every one who does, and these people hate the thinkers
like poison. Even if some thinkers are fanciful, it is wrong to make
fun of them for it. Better to think about cucumbers even, than not
to think at all.
-- T.H. White
Related:
- Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do,
and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school.... - June: [in Itchy's voice] Hi, Poochie. You look like you've got
something to say.
Do you? Homer: [Poochie voice] Yes, I certainly do!... - However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs.... - It doesn't help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown -- a
character who supposedly epitomizes today's intellige
highly paid, professional woman -- mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice.... - Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more
desire to throw a stone than you had.
Satan! Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep.... - I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to
promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it....
