Quotes and Wisdoms

[Ocean Breeze]

... No "terrorist" gene is known to exist or is likely to be found... Surely the, and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere: Ouch Borith: Permanent Representative Of The Kingdom Of Cambodia To The UN: 10/03/2001

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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.": Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.

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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong: James Bryce

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[Ocean Breeze]

Democrazies

by Butler Shaffer

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by
Jackasses.

~ H.L. Mencken

:scratch:

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government."

--Thomas Paine 'The Rights of Man' c.1792

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world: Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

 

[GL Schmitt]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." ~ Albert Einstein

 

[Ocean Breeze]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." ~ Albert Einstein

good one. Thanks for the excellent contribution

 

[Ocean Breeze]

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of
fear." -Mark Twain

 

[GL Schmitt]

"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H. L. Mencken

 

[Twila]

According to other writers, it is the women who last longest in sieges, the young men who soonest fall into that deadly lethargy that precedes actual death. But the account is accurate enough: that is what a siege is like. Moreover, that is what it is meant to be like. When a city is encircled and deprived of food, it is not the expectation of the attackers that the garrison will hold out until individual soldiers... drop dead in the streets. The death of ordinary inhabitants of the city is expected to force the hand of the civilian or military leadership. The goal is surrender; the means is not the defeat of the enemy army, but the fearful spectacle of the civilian dead.

-Michael Walzer

 

[peapod]

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
george carlin

 

[GL Schmitt]

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!"
- Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

 

[peapod]

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men to die. It always has been. It's all about owning things.
George carlin 8)

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Humpty Dumpty was pushed!

:lol: :lol:

(NOW, we know the truth. Another conspiracy theory about to evolve :wink:

 

[GL Schmitt]

“The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people and don't come in clearly enough”. ~ Bill Maher

 

[peapod]

If I ever went to war, instead of throwing a grenade, I would throw one of those small pumpkins. Than maybe my enemy would pick up the pumpkin and think about the futility of war. And that would give me the time I need to hit him with a real grenade.

Jack handey

 

[Ocean Breeze]

War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. : James Madison (1751–1836)

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. : Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

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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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Is the world too complacent ?? in "allowing" the US to be doing what it is now???

 

[Diamond Sun]

Susan B. Anthony:
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

I love that quote!

 

[GL Schmitt]

War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. : James Madison (1751–1836)

Funny you should quote that.

Wasn’t Madison the first Warhawk President?

Oh yes, and wasn’t James Madison also the president who was upstaged by the bravery of his wife, when he skedaddled as soon as the British came a-calling, while his wife Dolley nearly got caught because she stayed long enough to save the Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington, from the White House before it was burned?

“Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain

From his message to Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous: Carl Sagan

 

[GL Schmitt]

”It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” ~ Robert E. Lee

”Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

”Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.” ~ George S. Patton

”I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.” ~ Oliver North

”There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.” ~ George Armstrong Custer

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Quote:
”Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.” ~ George S. Patton

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