Quotes
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to
live." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Because
there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face
of Armageddon I shall not compromise in this" -- Rorschach (The
Watchmen)
"Beware
when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are
at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and
no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Fall
seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb
"Government
is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome
servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to
irresponsible action." --George Washington
"Heisenburg
probably rules." -Anon
"High
explosives are applicable where truth and logic fail." -Anon
"I
disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it
" --Voltaire
"I
do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4
will be fought with sticks and stones." --Albert Einstein
"I
haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." --Ben
Franklin
"I
still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of
confidence." --Doug McLeod
"I
was provided with additional input that was radically different from the
truth. I assisted in furthering that version." -Colonel Oliver North,
from his Iran-Contra testimony
"I
will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate
him." --Booker T. Washington
"I'm
fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die
in." --George McGovern
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge. " --Albert Einstein
"In
case of nuclear war, prayer in schools will be okay." -Anon
"In
no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to
anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to
arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for law." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Is
life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" -Patrick Henry
"It
is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on
the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." -Gandhi
"It
was a considered attack on the Government. We are criticizing the mentality
that can send young boys to war. The mentality of war is far more obscene
than we could possibly be." --Andy Palmer (Crass)
"Justice
is incidental to law and order." -J. Edgar Hoover
"Never
hit a man when he's down. He may get back up again." -Anon
"Never
hit a man with glasses; hit him with your fist." -Anon
"No
one can make you inferior without your consent." --Unknown
"One
death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." --Josef Stalin
"People
who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who
do." -Anon
"Please
provide the date of your death." --from an IRS letter
"Rednecks
and bombs don't make us strong."--Dead Kennedys
"Suppose
you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat
myself." --Mark Twain
"Taxation
WITH representation isn't so hot, either." -Anon
"The
best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them
away. -Ronald Reagan
"The
Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have
seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the
Church." --Ferdinand Magellan
"The
journey is the reward." -Taoist Saying
"The
military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." --William
Westmoreland
"The
most heroic word in all languages is revolution."--Eugene Debs
"The
pen is mightier than the sword, until it runs out of ink." -Anon
"The
problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard." -Anon
"The
taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't
have to take the civil service examination." -Ronald Reagan
"This
country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary
right to overthrow it." --Abraham Lincoln
"Throughout
history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the
indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice
of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to
triumph." --Haile Selassie
"Time
is the fire in which we burn." -Gene Roddenberry
"To
err is human. And stupid." -Anon
"To
laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure
the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in
others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of
success." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tourists
are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns." -Anon
"War
does not determine who is right - only who is left." --Bertrand
Russell
"Wars
have never hurt anybody except the people who die." --Salvador Dali
"We
are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty
equally." -Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister
"We
don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people." -Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor
"We
have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on
another."--Jonathan Swift
"We,
and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die
on our feet than live on our knees. -" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941
"We've
got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" --Lee
Iacocca
"When
the president does it, that means it is not illegal." --Richard
Nixon
"When
you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a
red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." --Albert
Einstein
"Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and
reflect." --Mark Twain
"Worship
the gods, listen to their advice, but don't lend them money." -Anon
"You
need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as
a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases
which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." --Charles
Austin Beard
"Your
food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice
that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a
change in your circumstances." -Department of Social Services,
Greenville, South Carolina
“A
straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by
no means the most interesting.” --Dr. Who
“And
you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.” --Sir
Winston Churchill in response to Bessie Braddock, who told him he was
drunk
“Computers
are useless. They can only give you answers.” --Pablo Picasso
“Fight
war, not wars, destroy power, not people.” --From the band Crass
“Go
away, I'm all right.” --The last words of H.G. Wells
“Hardly
a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount
of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his
employer that he is going at a good pace.” --Frederick W. Taylor
“He
who laughs last, hasn't passed out yet.” --Unknown
“History
is a lie agreed upon.” --Napoleon Bonaparte
“I
don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it
through not dying.” --Woody Allen
“I
have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency,
even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.” --Ronald Reagan
“In
Italy for thirty year under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and
bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred
years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
--Orson Welles to Joseph Cotten in The Third Man, 1949
“It
has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the
others that have been tried.” --Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
“It
is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.”
--Roger Berg
“It
matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or
lose.” --Darrin Weinberg
“Killing
is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.” --James
Coburn in The President's Analyst, 1967
“My
dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.” --Benjamin
Jowett
“Nothing
wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot.” --Clint
Eastwood in Magnum Force, 1973
“Only
two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
certain about the universe.” --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“The
most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it) but "That's
funny..." --Isaac Asimov
“The
object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard
die for his.” --General G.C. Patton (1885-1945)
“We
shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas
and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in
the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall
fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight
in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall
never surrender.” --Sir Winston Churchill
“When
I take action I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty
tent and hit a camel in the butt” – President George W. Bush
“Why
is it that if you kill a man in war your are a hero, but if you kill a man
outside of war you are called a murderer?” --Jonathan Grimes
“Yes,
God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final
copy.” --Unknown
“You
can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word
alone.” --Al Capone
“You
can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god.” --Hirohito,
Emperor of Japan (1901- 1989)