03-03-2022, 10:25 AM
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ÔÇ£Pro-lifeÔÇØ is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman."
"I donÔÇÖt understand why some people have no problem with CEOÔÇÖs making $10,000 an hour, but act as though the world will end if we raise the minimum wage."
Anon
"No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, & hours of labour short enough so after his dayÔÇÖs work is done he will have time & energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people; whereas the secret of tyranny lies in keeping them ignorant."
Maxmillien Robespierre
'The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. '
Robert Green Ingersoll
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, a result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the poor are not pitied but written off as trash."
John Berger
"War is organised murder, & nothing else."
Harry Patch, last surviving soldier of WW1
John Kenneth Galbraith
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ÔÇ£Pro-lifeÔÇØ is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman."
"I donÔÇÖt understand why some people have no problem with CEOÔÇÖs making $10,000 an hour, but act as though the world will end if we raise the minimum wage."
Anon
"No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, & hours of labour short enough so after his dayÔÇÖs work is done he will have time & energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people; whereas the secret of tyranny lies in keeping them ignorant."
Maxmillien Robespierre
'The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. '
Robert Green Ingersoll
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, a result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the poor are not pitied but written off as trash."
John Berger
"War is organised murder, & nothing else."
Harry Patch, last surviving soldier of WW1
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)