Self-Esteem

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. - Anon

...and act like they are the best.

Ladies and Gentlemen

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman. - American Proverb

A gentleman is a man who makes it easy for a woman to be a lady.

Evil Knows No Distance

State or local tyranny is no better than Federal tyranny. Local evil is just as evil as distant evil. - Lyle

It is just as important to vote on local issues as national ones.

Targeted

When giant bureaucracies set targets for others to reach, they intend not so much to procure improvement as to impose control. - Theodore Dalrymple

An they make themselves look compassionate while butting into other people's business.

Unwise Desires

A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom. - Robert Heinlein

Bureaucracies are established to butt into other people's business.

Refusing Awards

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than normal. - Peter Ustinov

And their point is generally lame.

Big Difference

There's a big difference between pleasure and happiness. - Lyle

Happiness is from within, pleasure is from outside.

If The Handle Fits

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Never trust a liar in any way.

Revolution, Not Evolution

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. - James Russell Lowel

Or making the existing thing awesome.

Flunking

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. - Carl Jung

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. - Robert Heinlein