Thread: Quotes

" A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
Carl Sagan.

"I've reached the point where I assume that anything that any high ranking Palestinian says is a lie unless I see independent evidence supporting it." - Stephen Den Beste

"Forty years ago, advocating separate drinking fountains made you a racist. Today, advocating separate taxi cabs or separate swimming sessions makes you a multiculturalist." Mark Steyn

" If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal ; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them?, our God is not theirs."
David Ben Gurion.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells, The Outline of History




"We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it." - Ernest Hemingway



"Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking." - William Mather Lewis




"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours



"Activists who are truly progressive cannot use force or trickery; we can only serve as mentors and midwives, showing the way and facilitating the birth of a new society. Our means must reflect our desired ends if we want our means to lead to those ends." - Randy Schutt, Inciting Democracy

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"What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America." - Marian Wright Edleman - Children's Advocate 1939-
Marian Wright Edelman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




"Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off." Fannie Lou Hamer - Sharecropper, Civil Rights Activist 1917 - 1977
Fannie Lou Hamer



"If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and mis-representatives of the masses claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks." Eugene V. Debs - Socialist, Activist, Presidential Candidate, (1855-1926)
Eugene v. Debs Political Activist, A Union Leader and His Personal History Between 1855 - 1926.



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If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.
— Nan Porter

" The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Mahatma Gandhi.

"The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own." Margaret Chase Smith Biography -United States Senator from Maine 1897-1995




"When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.": Helen Keller - Writer, lecturer, advocate for the disabled, 1880-1968



"But I was not wrong to hope that exposing secrets five presidents had withheld and the lies they told might have benefits for our democracy that were worthy of the risks. Wouldn't you go to jail to help end the war?" : - Daniel Ellsberg - Political analyst, Anti-nuclear activist 1931-

"The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." - Frederick Douglass



Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert Einstein



"When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson



"Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them." - Mark Hertzgaard


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" All people are born alike, except Republicans and Democrats."
Groucho Marx.

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want

Devo

Not sure what day to go to the Sunday market. - Ladyhawk

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime."
George Gordon Battle Liddy.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
— Dave Barry

"What's the use of Happiness? You can't buy Money with it!"
My Gran.......

" Political language is designed to make lies sound thruthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell.

You know it had to turn out that it is YOUR fault for noticing Barack Hussein Obama has been listening to a hate-monger for 23 years... it is you all who are divisive. Allahpundit:

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery"
Bertrand Russell.

The past is not a package one can lay away.
— Emily Dickinson

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." - Sir Winston Churchill </B>

" Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
Aristotle

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
— Author Unknown