Brainy Thoughts

“Don’t steal a police car unless you’re prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico.”

Author Unknown

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”

Plato, The Republic (428BC – 348BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture.

Edmund Burke in his speech to the Electors of Bristol during the 1774 election, on the duties of a Member of Parliament:

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is chiefly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution.

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

Author: Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Prussia – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary.

Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto (1848): “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” Marx believed that capitalism would be replaced by communism.