Thread: Quotes

"a coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave" Monhandas Gandhi

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media" Noam Chomsky

CHIEF TECUMSEH trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.
-- Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
-- Woody Allen

QUOTE OF THE DAY



We shall have no [personal] business deals with the [Burmese] junta; we shall observe human rights and environmental concerns; we shall treat Burmese as we do Thais.
— Thailand’s new foreign minister, Kasit Piromya

irrawaddy.org

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

“Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.”

~Harold Pinter~

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.
-- Bret Harte

"....I am the decider" Dubya

“Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later, you take on limitations and become the mind” ~Ramana Maharshi

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.”

~Dean Martin~

"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker"

"The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. "

~Jean-Marie Le Pen~

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

"Radical leftists think the Bush Administration is like the Nazi Party for one specific reason. They havenÆt studied the rise of the Nazis. They truly believe the comparison is apt not because they misunderstand Republicans, but because they misunderstand Hitler." - Michael Totten

"The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state."
~Albert Einstein~

"...Can you explain to me the killing of a hundred thousand children, women and men in Algeria, using the most abominable killing methods?

Can you explain to me the killing of 15,000 Syrian civilians?

Can you explain to me the abominable crime in the military artillery school in Aleppo?

Can you explain the crime in Al-Asbaqiya neighborhood of Damascus, Syria?

Can you explain the attack of the terrorists on the peaceful village of Al-Kisheh in Upper Egypt, and the massacre of 21 Coptic peasants?

Can you explain to me what is going on in Indonesia, Turkey, and Egypt, even though these are Islamic countries which opposed the American intervention in Iraq, and which don't have armies in Iraq, yet were not spared by the terrorists?

Can you explain these phenomena, which took place in Arab countries?

Was all this revenge on America or Israel?

Or were they merely to satisfy bestial wild instincts aroused in them by religious teachings, which incite to rejection of the other, to the killing of the other, and to the denial of the other.

When Saddam Hussein buried 300,000 Shiites and Kurds alive, we did not hear a single Muslim protesting.

Your silence served to acknowledge the legitimacy of these killings...


Wafa Sultan, a muslim woman.

"I have learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land."

~Ariel Sharon~

'"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." -- G. Gordon Liddy

"i'm usually not a praying man, but if you're up there please save me superman"
homer simspson

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.
— Thomas Pynchon