Quotes LII


"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago,"

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"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else, it's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S., you know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
-- Senator Rick Santorum
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"... it is always possible to fall off this bandwagon called globalization. And when you do, bloodshed will follow. If you are lucky, so will American troops."
--Thomas Barnett
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"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago,"
-- Military recruiter to student. Link
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"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas..."
-- Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, World Federation of Mental Health
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"We're winning!"
-- W
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“Every great work of art goes through messy phases while it is in transition. A lump of clay can become a sculpture, blobs of paint become paintings which inspire,”
-- Major General William Caldwell, referring to the war in Iraq.
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"just back off,”
--Donald Rumsfeld
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"We're all sort of Jewish wannabes."
-- Katherine Harris
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"... you're entitled to your math, I'm entitled to 'the' math."
-- Karl Rove
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“We lied in the morning, in the evening, and at night. I don’t want to do this anymore.”
-- Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in a secret tape recording
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Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception
-- Mark Twain
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'This is what you wanted, you asked for this, so play the game Tony.'*
-- Exchange between Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell
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“We fucked Carter’s October Surprise,”
-- Joseph Reed, LINK
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“I saw two dead babies who, when taken from a mortuary drawer in West Beirut during the Israeli siege of the city, suddenly burst back into flames..."
--Robert Fisk
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"It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever."
--Douglas Adams
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Only individuals have opinions.
-- Unknown, Simone Weil?
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"Every one who fights the American occupation has our full support, "They lied to us all the time, and it is time for them to admit their terrible failure and leave. Let them go rebuild New Orleans."
--Yassin Hussein, 30-year-old teacher in Ramadi told IPS.
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"There are images I need to complete my own reality."
-- Jim Morrison
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Posted: Fri - November 3, 2006 at 09:29 PM            

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