Quotes LXVIII



"the force of a law depends on the extent of its justice. Now in human affairs a thing is said to be just, from being right, according to the rule of reason. But the first rule of reason is the law of nature... Consequently every human law has just so much of the nature of law, as it is derived from the law of nature. But if in any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of law."
-- Thomas Aquinas
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"Prayers can help and so can the government,"
-- George Bush
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"Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic."
-- Pope Benedict XVI
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"Nice to know the Repubs have progressed from 2000 where they refused to count Democratic votes, to 2008 where they are now refusing to count their own votes."
--TPM reader comment
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"A few years back, a man high up in the CIA named Ray Cline was asked if the CIA, by its surveillance of protest organizations in the United States, was violating the free speech provision of the First Amendment. He smiled & said: 'It's only an amendment.'"
— Howard Zinn, The Zinn Reader pp 412-13.
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"I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the DK [Democratic Kampuchea]. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could not support him but China could."
-- Obama Foreign Policy Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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"Discounted oil is coming from the Axis of Evil!"
-- Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Member of the House Rules Committee and House Committee on Homeland Security, and sponsor of the Homeland Security Act.
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Personnel is policy
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"... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama"
-- Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008, LINK
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"Internationalism must first be a state of mind, an ideal, a chivalry, a religion, before it can be a reality and a system."
-- Samuel Zane Batten, The New World Order, 1919
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Boredom, anxiety, rejection, fear, envy, sloth - in TV commercials there are remedies for each of these, and more. The remedies are called Scope, Comet, Toyota, Bufferin, Alka-Seltzer, and Budweiser. They take the place of good works, restraint, piety, awe, humility, and transcendence.
-- Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News, pgs 124-125)
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
--Mark Twain
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'Buzz Aldrin' was given Ritalin for severe depression after returning to Earth.
-- http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050428/msgs/491134.html

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"What are you trying to do, turn America into a nation of rats? Our pioneer ancestors would piss in their graves."
-- William Burroughs
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Excerpts from transcript:

MR. RUSSERT: Before you go, I want to show a tape of Bill Clinton, the former president, talking about you and Hillary Clinton. Let's watch?

PRES. BILL CLINTON (D-AR): (From videotape.) She and John McCain are very close. They always laughed that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they're afraid they'd put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other.

MR. RUSSERT: Do you accept the endorsement?

SEN. McCAIN: I thank Senator Clinton for his endorsement.
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"Alles muss anders sein!" ("Everything must be different!")
-- Adolph Hitler
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"We deal now not with things of this world alone but....of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, speech at US Military Academy, Westpoint, May 2, 1962


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