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[jpgray]

"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it." --Norman Thomas

[Cadence]

1. "It is always

more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge"
- Adolf Hitler

[babylonsister]

11. "As democracy is perfected,

the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

[Placebo]

2. "A little bit too much is just enough for me"

—Jean Cocteau

[LeighAnn]

3. "It does not require a majority to prevail..."

but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds - Samuel Adams

[Cadence]

4. "During times

of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

[Neoma]

5. If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells

[donheld]

6. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-18-04

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

[NurseLefty]

7. My religion consists of a humble admiration

of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
--Albert Einstein

(I wish mankind would evolve to this level of spirituality - a whole hell of a lot of bloodshed would cease, don't ya think??)

[NamVetsWeeLass]

8. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition ....

from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." Albert Einstein

[Skittles]

9. "I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket."

LBJ

[fleabert]

10. Modern journalism,

by giving us the opinions of the uneducated, keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist

[SarahB]

12. Chomsky-

"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations."

[Metatron]

13. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Oscar Wilde

[Itascapark]

14. One from Gore

"Those who would outlaw abortion, contraception and same-sex while extolling the family and breeding are themselves the active agents of the destruction of the species. I would be angrier if I had a high opinion of the species, but I don't, and so I regard with serenity Pope and Ayatollah as the somehow preprogrammed agents of our demise, the fate of every species. Hordes of furious lemmings are loose among us; and who would stay them, particularly if they have the Book to throw?" --Gore Vidal

October 1991, "The Birds and the Bees", The Nation

[Atlas Mugged]

15. This is by memory

"Tell me what you feel when the light in your lamp is burning low and the full moon is shining in upon you and I will tell you how old you are and if you are happy".

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. "when we get frustrated, that is when the music come down by rain drops

to support all here with a broken heart and don’t know what to do." - Lee "Scratch" Perry

[arwalden]

17. Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.--Carl Sagan

[dolo amber]

18. "I didn't really say everything I said."

--Yogi Berra

[CornField]

19. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953