Quotes XLV



"For some people, politics is the art of putting out fires they themselves have set."
-- Laurence Durell, Nation & Europa, October 2001

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"The damn psychic spies should be keeping their damn mouths shut, instead of chitchatting all over town about what they did."
-- Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III,
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"For some people, politics is the art of putting out fires they themselves have set."
-- Laurence Durell, Nation & Europa, October 2001
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"To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list."
-- John Aikin
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"You can only learn from history if you know it."
-- James Bacque
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're
being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away
as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon
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"In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply.

The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops on the farm."
-- Frederick Taylor Gates, Occasional Letter No.1. Via http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven4.htm
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'There are more people than pigs'."
-- Eldridge Cleaver
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"A country against which the world is united is not a superpower."
-- Paul Craig Roberts
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth."
--Martin Luther King, JR
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"I am a former Republican who became a whistleblower that came forward and testified to Congress under oath, regarding the request from a sitting congressman to build a computer program that could, without detection, flip your vote in an election."
-- Clint Curtis
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"On September 18, 2001, Tehran saw the largest vigil in the Muslim world to honour the memory of the victims of 9/11. Of course, this was not the religious impulse the architects of this crisis meant to encourage. So the forces of moderation in Iran were frustrated, and the fundamentalist engines were fed the fires of provocation and aggression to carry us to this point, at which words and truths fail us and we again are presented with the despairing inevitability of war."
-- Jeff Wells
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"Prague really was liberated by foreign troops, after all. Not by the Allies who did not arrive until the shooting was all over, but by 22,000 Russian outlaws wearing German uniforms. The leader of these renegades was General Vlasov, a former hero of the Red Army."
-- Saturday Evening Post
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Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit."
-- Winston Churchill, Propaganda in the Next War, 1938.
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"You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper"
-- The Beatles
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"It ocurred to me that under the Patriot Act, it is now illegal to pay Federal Income taxes since that would be sending money to a terrorist organization."
-- Anonymous, via comments on this blog http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/04/money-doesnt-talk.html
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"...the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."
-- Plato
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All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
-- The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Posted: Fri - April 28, 2006 at 12:07 PM            

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