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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators,
after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Revolution is not a onetime event.
- Audre Lorde
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left
to the politicians.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who,
however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
- Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
- Sir Ian McKellen, Interview on the Today Show, May 2006
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right,
but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
- Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many',
and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
- Larry Hardiman
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
What is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
Sure there are dishonest men in local government.
But there are dishonest men in national government too.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Robert Anton Wilson
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
- Sophy Burnham
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
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