Thread: Quotes

"I'm sorry it's happening, obviously I don't like the idea of people losing jobs, or being worried about their 401(k)s."

~George W. Bush~

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
— Dan Quayle

"I had waited long enough, I thought 'Fuck it, take this you Cnut!"

From Manchester United Captain Roy Keane's autobiography on the tackle that ensured Alfe Haaland never played football again.

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

~Napoleon Bonaparte~

I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
— D. H. Lawrence

"Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs."

~Donald Rumsfeld~

"The country is sick so the king is sick. I think all Thais are worried. Thailand needs him. He is the only one who can make people on both sides realize they are ruining the country. He is the only one who can unify Thailand,"

~A concerned Thai~

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
— Mark Twain

"Thailand’s interminable political conflict has much to do with the taboo subject of its monarchy. That is why the taboo must be broken."

~The Economist~

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
— H. G. Wells

"Do not examine the limitations of others. Examine how you can change your own."

~Dakini Teachings~

“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”

— John Sheehan

“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages...will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests.”

— Rothschild Brothers of London
June 25, 1863 communiqué to associates in New York

“For believing Jews, Zionism is anathema to our religion, indeed to our very being. Real Jews do not want to take over Palestine. Real Jews wish to live in peace with all peoples, especially our Arab/Muslim cousins. Real Jews commiserate with the suffering of the Palestinian people at the hands of the satanic Zionist Reich.”

— Adiv Abramson
an orthodox Torah Jew

“...I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone to conquer, not to redeem... And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”

— Mark Twain
October 15, 1900

“Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war... We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle. First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today...”

— Yitzhak Shamir
Israeli Prime Minister

“Y’see? This here book by Chomsky proves we Americans got cultur! Shit, besides the parade like it shows on the cover, we got Ronald McDonald n’ Standard Oil n’ Coca Cola n’ Joe Camel cigarettes n’ Nike shoes

(Just Do It child laborers!)

We got Mickey Mouse n’ Goofy n’ Democrapublicans like Bill ‘I never inhaled’ Clinton n’ Ronald ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ Reagan. We got Hollywood n’ Playboy bunnies n’ REAL football n’ — most importint uv all — prime-time TV!

“Hell we got Charles Manson n’ Madeleine Albright n’ Lt. William ‘Babykiller’ Calley n’ Tricky Dick Nixon n’ Stormin’ Norman Scheizkopf n’ Colon Powell n’ Gee Dubbya Shrub n’... wull, the list of Amerikin heros is pert near endliss!

“Yep, we in cappitalist America feel so damn blessed, we just wanna share our fine, upstandin cultur with the rest of the world — whether you dang foreigners like it or not! Hell, its only outta the goodniss of our harts that we shovin are corporate dumocracy down you’re ungrateful throats. Fer the rest of you’re lives you be workin for slave wages, but hey — at least you got American TV an’ moovies to program yer stupid little infeerier third world brains with!




“What? You ain’t gonna get on yer kneess n’ thank us?? Pinko Commies!!! Well, fer yer own good, fer th’ sake of freedom n’ dumocracy n’ apple pie, we gonna hafta — to use a fine ol’ Americn expreshun — KICK YER ASS!!!”

— Joe Blowhard

All-American flag-waver,
Budweiser guzzler & True Believer

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

— John Wayne

All-American Hollywood actor

If Government is strong enough to give you everything you want , it's strong enough to take everything you have"-- Thomas Jefferson

"Clinton Lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." - Barbara Bush

"The Dalai Lama confirmed what I already knew, that he is not demanding independence."

~ French President Nicolas Sarkozy~

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams

"More than 10 million Americans are currently unemployed, looking for work to feed their families, even as Stan O'Neal lives large in his lavish homes, playing golf in his country club and dining out in expensive restaurants.
Obviously, none of this is fair. None of this is just."


~Bill O'Reilly~

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
— Dorthea Lange