Book Of The Subgenius Quotes

#1. I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

Scott Corbett

#2. They kept their secret from the knowledge of others, not as a shameful guilt, but as a thing that was immaculately theirs, beyond anyone's right of debate or appraisal.

Ayn Rand

#3. Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

Ted Nugent

#4. You welcome your children into the world knowing that if all goes the way you plan, you won't get to see the end of their story. It seems a sad notion until you realize that's what gives you hope for the future.

David Mack

#5. Pirates don't board Santa's ship. It's a law of the sea.

Jenna Katerin Moran

#6. As The Book of the SubGenius (the main text of a hilarious faux religion based in Dallas - get The Book of the SubGenius) says, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke," right?

Nick Offerman

#7. It is not the lack of commitment that destroys marriages, it is the lack of purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#8. If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

Peter Singer

#9. The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

Bruce Sterling

#10. The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.

Massimo Vignelli

#11. I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

Kristin Cavallari

#12. The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?

James Patterson

#13. I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics ... that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

Alain Badiou

#14. Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers.

Marisa De Los Santos