Sting and Honey

Freedom of Movement

Spirit of Movement

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” (Albert Einstein).

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” (Albert Einstein).

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.” (Albert Einstein).

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” (Albert Einstein).

“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower).

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower).

“Marketing modesty as a status symbol.”

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.” (Friedrich Nietzsche).

“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.” (Benjamin Cardozo).

“May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.” (Eskimo Proverb).

“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.” (Jules Renard, 1864 – 1910).

“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.” (Jules Renard, 1864 – 1910).

“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.” (Confucius 551 BC – 479 BC).

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.” (Confucius 551 BC – 479 BC).

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” (Confucius 551 BC – 479 BC).

“Man is by nature a political animal.” (Aristotle, 384 BC – 322 BC).

Road Safety

“The trodden path is the safest.”

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” (John A. Shedd)

“Don´t learn safety rules simply by accident.”

“It is easy to give advice from a port of safety”. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller).

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” (Helen Keller, 1880 – 1968).

“The best safety lies in fear.” (William Shakespeare).

“Caution is the parent of safety.”

Equal Rights

"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." (Albert Einstein).

“If you want to know what a man´s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” (J.K. Rowling).

Land Use and Planing

“The trodden path is the safest.”

“When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.” (Bob Edwards).

Environment

Nature Reservation

"We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children." (Antuan Saint Exupery)

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” (R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 – 1983).

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you´ve conquered human nature.” (Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870).

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” (Lorraine Anderson).

“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” (Isaac Bashevis Singer).

“ The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” (Zeno, 335 BC – 264 BC).

“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” (Lewis Mumford).

Traffic Management

“Slow and steady wins the race.” (Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise).

“When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.” (Bob Edwards).

Private Vehicles

“Marketing modesty as a status symbol.”

“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.” (Jules Renard, 1864 – 1910).

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.” (Edith Sitwell).

“Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.” (Madam Guizot).

“People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it´s black.” (Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947).

Public Transit

Transportation Economy

“When the product is right, you don´t have to be a great marketer.” (Lee Iacocca).

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.” (Mother Teresa).

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” (John D. Rockefelle, 1839 – 1937).

“If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” (John D. Rockefelle, 1839 – 1937).

Technology and Engineering / Innovation

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Albert Einstein).

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” (Albert Einstein).

“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.” (Albert Einstein).

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” (Albert Einstein).

“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.” (Albert Einstein).

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” (Friedrich Nietzsche).

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” (Lee Iacocca).

“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. “ (Putt’s Law).

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” (R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 – 1983).

Energy and Fuels

"I´d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don´t have to wait ´til oil and coal run out before we tackle that." (Thomas Edison)

“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!” (Golda Meir).

“If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead if you strike oil.” (J. Paul Getty).

Public Administration

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” (Albert Einstein).

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower).

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” (Friedrich Nietzsche).

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.” (Friedrich Nietzsche).

“Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.” (Frederick E. Crane).

“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” (Brooks Atkinson).

“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.” (Charles Peters).

“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.” (Eugene McCarthy).

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” (Laurence J. Peter).

“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” (Milton Friedman).