Quotes LXXIX



"If you watch Jaws backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach."
-- Found on Twitter
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
-- George Orwell
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"... 800 million dead people can't be wrong."
-- AhabsOtherLeg
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"The cemeteries are full of indispensable men."
-- Charles De Gaulle
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"There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy..."
-- Richard Perle, Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence
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"We’re going to take a commercial break and get them out of the way, so that when something really substandard is happening, we don’t have to interrupt them."
-- CNBC Anchor Mark Haines, Link
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"What terrifies the manipulators is that people will abandon hope, as a future, sometime-never projection, and start to demand fairness, justice and freedom now."
-- David Icke
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"According to my history book, all this economy needs is more lead poisoning."
-- J. Adam moore
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"I am a Democrat but mainly for the atmosphere ..."
-- Garrison Keillor
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"… you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments."
-- Saul Alinsky
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"Those who beat their arms into plows will plow for those who do not."
-- Thomas. Jefferson
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"Mitchell is fair. He’s been meticulously even-handed, but the fact is, American policy in the Middle East hasn’t been ‘even handed’ — it has been supportive of Israel when it felt Israel needed critical U.S. support. “So I’m concerned, I’m not sure the situation requires that kind of approach in the Middle East.”
-- Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League
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“I think they should just clear off all the city; just take it off the ground. Yes, I’m a little bit fascist”
-- Interviewee Keren Levy on Israel's "Hill of Shame" observing Operation Cast Lead.
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“if you want to tell people truth, make them laugh or they’ll kill you.”
-- Oscar Wilde
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"... information spreads at the speed of light, while ignorance is instantaneous at all points in the known universe."
-- Dmitry Orlov, Link
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"... no one lives in America any longer. Some live above it, while most live below it."
-- Antifa, Link
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"GOP propagandists... will scream, with some justification, that Obama plans to give away more money to the wealthy. The GOP alternative is to give away more money to the wealthy.
Aren't you glad we have a two-party system?"
-- Joe Cannon
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" I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but our own fiscal irresponsibility."
-- August 2007, David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States
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"Responsible and well-versed people must prepare for such a [economic] storm. But even so, it comes unexpectedly, just as winter comes unexpectedly to Russia every year.”
-- Putin
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"Kosovo and the people of Kosovo bow before the government and the people of America for their support."
-- Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, July 18, 2008), Link
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
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Posted: Thu - February 26, 2009 at 11:27 PM            

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