Rick Roderick Quotes

#1. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#3. Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.

Rick Roderick

#4. The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

Paul Lockhart

#5. I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and much else besides.

Richard J. Evans

#7. Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.

Diana Peterfreund

#8. I've never done heroin or slept with people for money or anything.

Amy Sedaris

#9. S&M is as psychological as it is physical and sexual, Zach. Imagine being as deep inside a woman's mind as you are inside her body.

Tiffany Reisz

#10. The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

Chogyam Trungpa