Thread: Quotes

"We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace." -- George W. Bush, 9/16/01

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

John Stuart Mill

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

That's not a quote - that's common kowledge!

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a Person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. Homer

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Dear Homer. Please stop using a black font I most of us can't fekkin' read it. Thanks.

"There's the right way, and there's the Thai way" - Marmite the Dog

Ok. Do we need a Larger font too?

Originally Posted by Homer

Ok. Do we need a Larger font too?

No, but thanks for not using blik text.

"If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well - unless doing it well takes so long that it isn't worth doing anymore. Then you just do it 'good enough'." - Programming Perl, Wall and Schwartz

"Did you know Bill and Hillary Clinton were born under the same sign? 'For Sale.' " - Jay Leno

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason: Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612

Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots: -H.L. Mencken

I'm always amused by the people who say "Give peace a change." We gave peace a chance. Then the people we were being peaceful towards murdered 3000 Americans, and tried to kill far more." – Boffo

"Fuck the yanks. Who gives a toss about New York?"

Lee from the boyband Blue in a rare (in truth, his only) moment of genius the day after the attacks on the twin towers.

Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations: Andrew Jackson, farewell address, 04 March 1837

"What is the great Amercican sin? Extravagance? Vice? Graft? No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish. Trace most of our ills to their source, and it is found that they exist by virtue of an easy-going, fatalistic indifference which dislikes to have its comfort disturbed....The most shameless greed, the most sickening industrial atrocities, the most appalling public scandals are exposed, but a half-cynical and wholly indifferent public passes them by with hardly a shrug of the shoulders; and they are lost in the medley of events. This is the great American sin.": Joseph Fort Newman, Atlantic Monthly, October 1922

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is slavery: Jonathan Swift : Irish author, 1667-1745

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

Louis Armstrong

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today." : President Theodore Roosevelt

"If a baseball player slides into home plate and, right before the umpire rules if he is safe or out, the player says to the umpire - 'Here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, 'Your honor before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. "But if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign contribution. We should call it a bribe." : Janice Fine - Dollars and Sense magazine

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'" - Lillian Carter, Jummah's mother

If one question is rightly settled in the American and, indeed, the international memory, it is that the Vietnam War was at best a titanic blunder and at worst a campaign of atrocity and aggression.

Christopher Hitchens

Beheadings, suicide bombings, mass executions, and improvised explosive devices are not intended to destroy or even defeat the U.S. military. Rather, they are aimed at the taxpaying citizens back home who fuel it. -- Victor Davis Hanson

"To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." -- Charles Krauthammer