• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. [J R R Tolkien - The Hobbit]
  • Know Thyself [Anon: Greek]
  • Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.
  • Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
  • The fascist state is the corporate state. [Benito Mussolini]
  • Everyone likes to say Hitler did this and Hitler did that but the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class asshole, but the evil actually done, from the death camps to World War Two, was all done by citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster. [Michael Rivero]
  • Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way; stop participating in it. [Noam Chomsky]
  • Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it. [Mark Twain]
  • I spent thirty-three years in the marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. [General Smedley Butler, Marine]
  • Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or disappeared, at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. [Amnesty International, in its annual report on U.S. Military aid and human rights, 1996]
  • The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. [Ferdinand Magellan]
  • The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. [Thomas Paine]
  • I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. [James Buchanan]
  • I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be the ones who will help the poor overthrow the rich, who will talk about land reform and education and health facilities for everyone, and that when the Red Cross or Amnesty International comes to count the bodies and take the testimony of women raped, that our side won't be the heavies. [Richard Cohen]
  • You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. [Malcolm X]
  • I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work. [Adolf Hitler]
  • Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. [Jeff Burroughs]
  • It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy, which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria, and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. [General Douglas MacArthur]
  • Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. [Ambrose Bierce]
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. [Galileo Galilei]
  • The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. [Woodrow Wilson]
  • All Bibles are man-made. [Thomas Edison]
  • The corporation is a true Frankenstein's monster, an artificial person run amok, responsible only to its own soulless self. [William Dugger]
  • People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. [Elizabeth Kubler-Ross]
  • When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry.
  • You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel...
  • Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open
  • The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. [Dietrich Bonhoeffer]
  • /EARTH is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can
  • (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened...