My collection of quotes probably numbers 500 or so. I find them everywhere: on-line, books, podcasts, articles, and if they pack a punch with a pithy truth, I'll gladly take them from those with whom I typically don't agree. 

The cure for poverty has a name in fact, and it's called the empowerment of women.  Christopher Hitchens

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.   Karl Marx

What can I know? What ought I do? What can I hope? Martin Heidegger

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.  George Washington

In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.  Robert Frost

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.    Richard Dawkins

It is a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom, knowledge, and power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.     Richard Dawkins

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan

Life can only be understood backwards...but it must be lived forwards.   Kierkegaard

Libertarians live in a simplified world where the connections between people are undervalued.  Eric Weinstein

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary, when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. Emile Durkheim.

Peter T.