Quotes

**Lambik** · 11-05-2008, 07:57 AM

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

~Bertrand Russell~

**Boon Mee** · 12-05-2008, 03:30 AM

"Meanwhile, those of us who talk of reforming Iraq are assured by our opponents that it's preposterous to think that Arabs can ever be functioning citizens of a democratic state. If that's so, isn't that an issue, given current immigration patterns, not for Iraq tomorrow but for Britain, France, Belgium and Holland right now?" -- Mark Steyn

**Homer** · 12-05-2008, 09:01 AM

" ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret. ": Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author

Our men . . . have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of 10 up.... Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to "make them talk," and have taken prisoners people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later. . . stood them on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float down, as examples to those who found their bullet-loaded corpses.": Philadelphia Ledger newspaper in 1901, from its Manila [Philippines] correspondent during the US war with Spain for the control of the Philippines

"The only place you and I disagree . . . is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big." : Richard Nixon to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the Watergate tapes

"This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.": George Orwell, 1984

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**Lambik** · 12-05-2008, 01:50 PM

“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
~Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill~

**Marmite the Dog** · 12-05-2008, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

I thought Texpat looked familiar.

**Boon Mee** · 12-05-2008, 11:43 PM

"You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that they advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewers head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky." - Bill Whittle

**Lambik** · 13-05-2008, 08:16 AM

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

~ JOSEPH GOEBBELS~

**Homer** · 13-05-2008, 10:06 AM

"Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this": Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003

"God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany." Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side": Aristotle

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - just so long as I'm the dictator". George W. Bush, 18 December 2000

"International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me" George W. Bush, 12 December 2003

**Lorenzo** · 13-05-2008, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by seth106

I have, more than once. Mark Twain has a million and for some reason the most quoted man in existence is PJ o'Rourke (though I haven't heard muck new from him in recent times)

I heard Yogi Berra was one of the most quoted also

One of his classics:

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"

**Boon Mee** · 14-05-2008, 04:18 AM

It's pretty clear to me that the Democratic agenda is to turn us into France." -- Mitch McConnell

**Boon Mee** · 14-05-2008, 04:19 AM

"Since the Civil War, no Democrat has ever been elected without carrying West Virginia..." -- Patrick Reddy

**Boon Mee** · 14-05-2008, 04:28 AM

"I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." -- Hillary Clinton

**Red dragon** · 14-05-2008, 04:51 AM

We (England) haven't been scoring goals, but football's not just about scoring goals. It's about winning.
Alan Shearer

How do you plan on winning without actually scoring goals Alan??

**Lambik** · 15-05-2008, 07:17 AM

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.”
~Eugene J. McCarthy~

**Boon Mee** · 16-05-2008, 03:13 AM

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." -- President Bush

**Boon Mee** · 16-05-2008, 03:37 AM

"Popularity is fleeting... Principles are forever." -- President George W. Bush

**changnoy** · 16-05-2008, 03:47 AM

''faint Heart Never Fu..ked A Pig''

Dr Rodney Changnoi

**Lambik** · 16-05-2008, 04:05 PM

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”

~Winston Churchill~

**Boon Mee** · 16-05-2008, 07:56 PM

"For years, many governments played down the threats of Islamic revolution, turned a blind eye to international terrorism and accepted the development of weaponry of mass destruction. Indeed, some politicians were happy to go further, collaborating with the self-proclaimed enemies of the West for their own short-term gain ù but enough about the French. So deep had the rot set in that the UN security council itself was paralyzed." - Margaret Thatcher

**chinthee** · 16-05-2008, 10:25 PM

So....I'm going to figure out who is Lambik, Homer, and maybe a few others and I'll let you all know.

**Boon Mee** · 17-05-2008, 01:00 AM

"Democrats are on the precipice of securing their reputation as the Chamberlains of our time. In fact, today's appeasers are worse than Neville Chamberlain: Chamberlain didn't have himself as an example." -- Ann Coulter

**Boon Mee** · 17-05-2008, 01:01 AM

""Over the past fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in ... 57 states? I think, one left to go"." -- Barack Hussein Obama, 2008

**Boon Mee** · 17-05-2008, 10:05 PM

Can Somebody Explain to Me ...

... how Obama sat in Wright's church for 20 years and managed never to hear anything, but hears 20 seconds of a Bush speech that doesn't mention him and perceives a shameful personal attack? -- Andy McCarthy

**Bung** · 18-05-2008, 07:07 AM

I traveled in much the same way as people stayed still - it was the way of life that suited me. As for purpose and goals in life, I didn’t have any. Purpose sounded too single minded for me, too restricted by fixed ideas. I preferred to be flexible. Also, I rejected the concept of goals and ambition; they implied success or failure. I wasn’t interested in measuring myself against others or competing with them.

William Dampier – 17 & 18th Century Royal naval officer and bucaneer

Blew me away as it sums up my life perfectly. Probably more than a few Farangs in Thailand as well

**Lambik** · 18-05-2008, 09:40 AM

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses"
~Carl Jung~

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