Thread: Quotes

" An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"My computer is so badazz, it performs illegal operations" - Ashley Brenner

" One of the most feared expression in modern times is : The computer is down."
Norman Ralph Augustine

" The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily.That is what Fiction means."
Oscar Wilde.

"These things I believe: That government should butt out. That freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant government will take it all away. That individual freedom demands individual responsibility. That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.. That the executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. That political parties have become close to meaningless. That government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. That government should provide for the national defense and work to insure domestic tranquillity. That foreign trade should be fair rather than free- That once a year we should hang someone in government as an example to his fellows.": Lyn Nofziger




'People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.. " Edmund Burke

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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." -- John Paul Jones, 1778

" The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
Napoleon Bonaparte.

"The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time." - Larry Laudan, Science and Relativism (1990)

"For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane." - Neal Stephenson

" I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.Fortunately we were on the winning side."
US General Curtis Emerson LeMay.

The Democrats are ideologically and intellectually more homogeneous. They don't have arguments because intellectual dissent is less well tolerated in a Democratic Party where diversity is only measured by skin color, gender and sexuality. Meanwhile Republicans tend to argue about issues and substance.-- Jonah Goldberg

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom" - Friedrich August Hayek



"It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" Gore Vidal



"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us." Dan Quayle



The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai E. Stevenson



Truth is not determined by majority vote. Doug Gwyn

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" The victor will never be asked if he told the truth"
Adolf Hitler.

"Lawsuits are destroying our ability to survive. We may be too stupid to get through a cup of coffee without help, but we're smart enough to know that our idiocy can make us rich." – Seanbaby

“We must remove government’s smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state—and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.” —Ronald Reagan

" Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Wilson Reagan.

"Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH." -- Marine Corps Rules for Gun Fighting

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
— Karl Popper

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil" -- Thomas Mann

"Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices and habits without necessarely sharing or accepting them."
Joshua Loth Liebman.

"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."- Aristotle in Politics, J. Sinclair translation, pg. 226, 1962



"...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations."--Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President of the USA.



"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.''-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy" ---John Pierpont Morgan



But that's the whole point of corporatism: to try and remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run -which include production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything-are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.- Professor Noam Chomsky, interviewed in Corporate Watch



"Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?" Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859

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" In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
Frances Ann Lebowitz.

.. a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama" - Barack Obama, Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008.