Quotes LIII


Fight 'em till hell freezes over, then fight 'em on the ice.
-- David Van Os

"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."
-- William Blake
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"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already."
-- Robert Anton Wilson
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"We cannot leap into world government through one quick step. A consensual global system requires a process....The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."
-- Zbignew Brzezinski
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I tell you that a whole new form of government is going to take over the country..."
-- Jack Ruby
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"Oh, it was a success. We got rid of Saddam Hussein. Beyond that is icing."
-- Daniel Pipes
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Politics: The art of delaying utter catastrophe until it isn't your problem.
-- Hugh Manatee
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In a free land, the chief is called to account if he errs.
-- Persian saying
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"Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself...and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty."
-- Chief Joseph, American
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"We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America."
-- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
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"I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place,"
-- Michael Ledeen, NRO's "The Corner"
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Jamie Glazov: Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade Iraq, then when do we do so?

Ledeen: Yesterday.

-- Frontpage, August 12, 2002
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"In a post-Sept. 11 world, I thought the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic."
-- Richard Cohen
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
-- Edward Bernays
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The ultimate "blues" of our time.
Watching the death star fry itself like a fierce bottleneck guitar riff that
runs out of frets.
-- Mike Cosper
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''When you lose the right to say 'fuck', you lose the right to say 'fuck the goverment'."
-- Lenny Bruce
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“they got you pinned on something called ‘bullshit.”
-- Bill Cosby discussing BET TV.
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“Vladimir, do not get more than 80 percent of the vote; I have 50, and that is enough for me.” What was he [George W. Biush] thinking about? Should Putin have sat down and called to the Central Election Commission, and said, “Hey, listen, give me no more than 80, better 70 percent.”
-- Vladislav Surkov, http://mosnews.com/interview/2005/07/12/surkov.shtml
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By now there are even technologies for overthrowing governments and schools where one can learn the trade, so to speak.
-- Vladislav Surkov
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Fight 'em till hell freezes over, then fight 'em on the ice.
-- David Van Os
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"From our comfortable seat in life … we never could have imagined that thousands of well-off adults, integrated and even cultured, find pleasure in seeing children tortured and killed.”
-- Front-page editorial in Italy’s Corriere della Sera, reprinted in The Irish Times, September 29, 2000, LINK
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"Here is a political tract," he said, pointing to a script in a glass cabinet, somewhat dog-eared and chewed by termites. "A letter on good governance, a warning to intellectuals not to be corrupted by the power of politicians."
Timbuktu's Sharan library, LINK
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... the single greatest achievement of the 20th century was the founding of the
state of Israel.
-- Amy Friedkin former President of AIPAC quoting Nancy Pelosi
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Posted: Tue - December 12, 2006 at 09:58 PM            

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