QUOTES by AUTHOR - S to Z | Revised : March 22, 2004
SANTAYANA, George:
"Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies."--George Santayana
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SCHLOSSER, Eric - "Fast Food Nation" :
"Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music - combined." ($110 Billion in 2000)
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SECRECY, ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY -
"A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our Constitution." -- Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
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SEDITION:
NPR had an interesting segment recently about a community in upper Westchester County, New York. It was a "liberal" Jewish area that was founded on communitarian values about 100 years ago. One fellow there was talking about a tense moment for his grandmother, when she was processed through Ellis Island on her way to join the community. The last question that the INS bureaucrat asked her was: "Would you willfully engage in the overthrow of the U.S. Government by revolution or sedition?"
After a thoughtful moment, she replied: "Sedition".
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SELASSIE, Haile
"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
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SHARON, ARIEL
"I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001
whatreallyhappened.com
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SCHILLER: Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens," wrote Schiller. "With stupidity even the gods struggle in vain."
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SINCLAIR, Upton:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
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SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE:
"I think the administration took September 11 and used it as a blank check. You try not to be cynical, but without the distraction of Iraq [people would notice] that the economy is doing poorly, and the old fashioned Republican tax cuts for the folks that are doin' well will seriously curtail services for people who are struggling out there. I don't think that's the kind of country Americans really want." --Bruce Springsteen
Source: buzzflash.com
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STALIN on Voting: (APOCRYPHAL)
"It doesn't matter who gets the most votes in an election; it only matters who counts the votes."
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STEVENSON, ADLAI:
"If the Republicans stop telling lies about us, we will stop telling the truth about them."
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SUN TZU:
"All war is deception." --Sun Tzu
"When capable, feign incapacity, when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away, when far away, that you are near. Offer the enemy a bait to lure him, feign disorder and strike him." --Sun Tzu
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TACITUS:
"Crime once exposed has no refuge but in audacity." --Tacitus
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TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de :
"America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, it will cease to be great."
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TOLSTOY, Leo:
"History would be a great thing, if only it were true." -- Leo Tolstoy
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TROTSKY, LEON: “American imperialism is in essence ruthlessly rude, predatory, in the full sense of the word, and criminal.” -- Leon Trotsky
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TRUMAN, Harry:
"The only thing new in the world is the history that you don't know." --Pres. Harry Truman
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TWAIN, MARK:
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"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 falsities, and will diligently study them, and 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 at the outset of WW I
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VANDERBILT, Cornelius:
"LAW? What do I care of the law? I got the power hain't I?" --Cornelius Vanderbilt (ca. 1867)
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WAR QUOTES, various authors:
“When hope is taken away from people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.” -- Pearl Buck
“The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if
he does not lose.” -- Henry Kissinger
“You can’t say civilisations don’t advance - for in every war they kill you in a new way.” --Will Rogers
“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation”. --General Wiiliam Tecumsah Sherman
“There is a point beyond which perseverance can only be termed desperate folly”. --Karl von Clausewitz
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WELLS, H.G.
On War: “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” -- H.G. Wells
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe" - H.G. Wells
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WHITE ROSE, Die Weisse Rose:
"Nothing is less worthy of a cultivated people than to allow itself to be governed by a clique of irresponsible bandits of dark ambition without Resistance." -- Die Weisse Rose, 1942
whiteroseinternational.org
History of The White Rose: whiteroseinternational.org
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WILDE, OSCAR:
"True friends stab you in the front."
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WILLIAMS, ROBIN:
"A lecture from George Bush on business ethics? That's like getting a facial from a leper." --Robin Williams
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MISCELLANEOUS:
"Dieu li volt!" --God Wills It! The War Cry of the First Crusade
"Se non e vero, e ben trovato." If it's not true, it's at least well crafted.
"N'enculon pas les mouches" - Let us not nit-pick.
Le Petomane - Master Gas Passer
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Oderint dum Metuant -- Caligula -- Let them hate, so long as they |
