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"It's not that I don't expect you to understand. I expect you to not understand." -Spanky

"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." -Patrick Jake O’Rourke

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." -Étienne de La Boétie

"If a tyrant is one man and his subjects are many, why do they consent to their own enslavement?" -Étienne de La Boétie

"Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man." -Emma Goldman

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." -Socrates

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Theodore Roosevelt

"I fear that we may be moving farther away from civilization and more towards domestication." -Spanky

"I got this real moron thing I do, it's called thinking. And I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions." -George Carlin

"The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else." -Dr. Adrian Rogers

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." -James Madison

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Mahatma Ghandi

"Beauty is in the eye of the beheader." -Old Islamic saying, maybe...

"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." -Winston Churchill

"When you're born into this world, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat." -George Carlin

"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights--the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery--hay and a barn for human cattle. There’s only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -Patrick Jake O’Rourke

"In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes." -Peter D. Ouspensky

"The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm." -Peter D. Ouspensky

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -George Orwell

"The supply of government exceeds the demand." -Lewis H. Lapham II

"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?" -Lewis H. Lapham II

"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." -Edward Langley

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." -Bjarne Stroustrup

"The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another." -Emma Goldman

"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other." -Emma Goldman

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." -Mark Twain

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." -George Carlin

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it." -George Carlin

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do." -Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Human nature is above all things lazy." -Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." -C. E. Stowe (maybe his mother Harriet)

"There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock." -Author Unknown

"Your words do not offend me. Your stupidity, on the other hand, brings great shame upon us all." -Spanky

"You're not a freak! You're just stupid!" -Dib (from Invader Zim)

"Only death cures stupidity." -Faye Valentine (from Cowboy Bebop)

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in an insane world!" -The Mighty Blue Tick

"When I grow weary of the noises you make, you shall die!" -General Sarris (from Galaxy Quest)

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." -Oscar Levant

"Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared." -Zhuge Liang

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." -Buddha

"Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mahatma Ghandi

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Mahatma Ghandi

"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity." -Robert Anthony

"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason." -Klaatu

"I'm impatient with stupidity." -Klaatu

"I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets—in space ships like this one—and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us; this power can not be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is that we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war—free to pursue more profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet. But if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: Join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer; the decision rests with you." -Klaatu

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." -Vincent Van Gogh

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." -Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." -Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." -Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." -Robert Frost

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." -Lao Tzu

"Miscommunication is one of Humanity's great failings." -Spanky

"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor." -Max Eastman

"Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words." -Author Unknown

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." -Oscar Wilde

"A hug is the perfect gift; one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it." -Author Unknown

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." -K (from Men in Black)

"Truth is free, but then, so is BS. Only experience will teach you how to distinguish between the two." -Spanky

"And it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way." -Metallica, No Leaf Clover

"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more." -Mark Twain

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." -Oscar Ameringer

"Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool." -John J. Miller

"Most people are poorly coded NPCs in this game called Life. The proof lies in their limited responses and inability to learn, grow and adapt to new situations." -Spanky

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." -George Orwell

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -Robert A. Heinlein

"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual and schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." -H.L. Mencken

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby

"Tell you what, if it makes you feel better, just pretend that your "God" put me on this Earth to test your faith. Because He, sure as Hell, put YOU here to test MY patience!" -Captain Morgan

"STFU for now and pass judgment once you are informed. Until then, be patient, be realistic and don’t be an ass." -Spanky

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." -Winston Churchill

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato

"You've made the men in the shadows powerful because your fear is the Viagra that inspires their abuse." -Les Visible (You Might not Feel it but Your Children Will)

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln

lol .. read them all... love Abe Lincoln's quote. Im sure quite a few just pass over it going .. yeah yeah..