Some Quotes for Your Mental Perspective
"Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.” -- Dave Barry
."Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.” -- Dave Barry
."We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -- Benjamin Franklin
."The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes ." -- Dave Barry
."Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful...and give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind. -- George Orwell
."Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." -- Churchill
."A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich". -- David Frost
."The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes." -- Dave Barry
."The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.” -- Pierre Abelard
."We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin." -- Dave Barry
."We're lost but we're makin' good time". -- Yogi Berra
."I put a dollar in the change machine. Nothing changed.." -- George Carlin
."Always question the received reality." -- George Carlin
."The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time." -- Richard Nixon
."Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O‘Rourke
."Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies". -- Thomas Jefferson
."Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob". -- Franklin Roosevelt .
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." -- J.K. Rowling
."As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it." -- Einstein
."There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." -- Victor Hugo
."Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough." -- J. Van de Wetering
. "Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence." -- Laurance Labadie
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"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you". -- Ezekiel 25:17
."If you tell people a big enough lie, often enough, they will believe it." -- Dr. Goebells
."A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein
."In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
."Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity." -- Einstein
."The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes". -- Abraham Lincoln
."We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist". -- Dwight Eisenhower (obviously, nobody listened to "Ike"...)
."Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today". -- Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy would be horrified at the way things are nowadays...)
."There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods". -- Aldous Huxley (note that this was stated about a generation ago...)
."The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson". -- FDR
."Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure". -- Joseph Kennedy
."What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents". -- Bobby Kennedy
."There is a fraternity of us, the abyss walkers. In our eyes, the world is divided by it, made up of those who walk frail, careening rope bridges over the abysses and those who do not. We know each other. I do not think it is a conscious thing with us, this knowing, at least not most of the time, or we would flee from each other as from monsters. It is an animal thing. It is only on that wild old neck-prickling level that we meet. It is only in our eyes that we acknowledge that our twin exhalations have touched and mingled. Sometimes, though not often, one of the others, the non-abyss people, will know us too. You may even know the feeling yourself; you may have met someone about whom otherness clings like miasma; you can feel it on your skin though you can't name it. When that happens, you have met one of us. You may even be one of us, down deep and in secret. The other half of the world, the solid, golden half, the non-abyssers…they feel nothing under their feet but solidity. They inherit the earth. We inherit the wind.." -- from Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons
."The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
."Practically everything you touch, breathe, and consume is by design hazardous to your health and well being." -- Anonymous
."It is no longer 'survival of the fittest'; rather, it is now 'survival of the correctly informed'."
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