Thread: Quotes

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
— Benjamin Disraeli

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." -- Ronald Reagan

A huge lie repeated often enough is accepted as truth." -- Joseph Goebbels

"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true."
~Henry Kissinger~

"As should have been apparent to President Bush and Sen. [John] McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was,"

Senator Barack Obama, 15/7/08

No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
— Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
~Michel de Montaigne~

“Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution”

Theodore Dobzhansky, Geneticist

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.
— Quentin Crisp

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality"

~Henry Louis Mencken~

As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.
-- Charles Krauthammer on BO's ego which exceeds his achievements.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Obama Hasn't Earned A Place At Berlin Gate

"When you're in a position where you think you've got a lot of ego and you might perceive it as power.. If you're in a position to make things happen.. that allows you tremendous opportunities which other people don't have."
~Alan Bond~

"We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad global ambitions. And they will be dealt with in just the same way. Like all fascists, the terrorists can not be appeased. They must be defeated. This struggle will not end in a truce or a treaty. It will end in victory for the United States, our friends and for the cause of freedom." -- George W. Bush, Pearl Harbor Day 2001

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
— Zen Proverb

"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!"

~Thomas Hardy~

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche~

“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about importantissues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”

~Robert Maynard Hutchins~

But make sure you read it all first.

"We have no interest in oppressing other people. We are not moved by hatred against any other nation. We bear no grudge. I know how grave a thing war is. I wanted to spare our people such an evil. It is not so much the country of Czechoslovakia; it is rather its leader, Edward Benes. He has led a reign of terror. He has hurled countless people into the profoundest misery. Through his continuous terrorism, he has succeeded in reducing millions of his people to silence. The Czech maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger. We have displayed a truly unexampled patience, but I am no longer willing to remain inactive while this madman ill-treats millions of human beings." --Adolph Hitler, April 14th, 1939

sounds kinda familiar, do you think he and GWB use the same scriptwriter??

".......

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."

~Herman Goering~

“Barack Obama represents an obnoxiously elitist attitude that reeks of paternalistic government...” -- Kathryn Lopez

“What is amazing this year is how many people have bought the fundamentally childish notion that, if you don’t like the way things are going, the answer is to write a blank check for generic ‘change,’ empowering someone chosen not on the basis of any track record but on the basis of his skill with words.” -- Thomas Sowell

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
~ John F. Kennedy~