PWI Quotation Depository

Welcome to the depository of inspirational quotations that have appeared on the Post World Industries home page. These statements have a certain resonance that compels them to be placed at the portal of our site. We would greatly appreciate any comments or contributions you might have for our Quotation Library, so please contact us if you feel so moved.


PWI Home Page Select Quotes and Excerpts

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The urban guerrilla’s aim is to attack the state’s apparatus of control at certain points and put them out of action, to destroy the myth of the system’s omnipresence and invulnerability.
- RAF, in Concept of the Urban Guerrilla

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
- Miss Manners

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato

The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
- Jean-Louis Gassee

Sending assassins to kill me is in very poor taste.
- Illya Kuryakin

My loathing’s are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison (1787)

The way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
- UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Laws are like spider's webs: if some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a bigger one can break through and get away.
- Solon

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
- Edward Abbey

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want parole; I'm too busy working on my web site.
- Charles Manson, 3/27/97