Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

'Any lawmaker, while making a six figure salary, receiving Cadillac benefits package, & becoming a millionaire from being in office, who tells the poor, the disabled & the disadvantaged that they must make sacrifices, has no business as a legislator or being called a decent human being.'
Anon


'Humans are ÔÇÿjust a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet thatÔÇÖs in orbit round a typical star on the outskirts of a typical galaxyÔÇÖ
Stephen Hawking

'Those who do not see money as a tool, but as an objective, will soon find themselves as its tool.'
L E Modesitt

'The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter & that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.'
Andre Malraux, La condition humaine (man's fate.)

'Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.'
Robin Morgan

'The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.'

Tom Clancy


"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate powerÔÇØ
Benito Mussolini

'Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.'
Pat Robertson (Conservative Baptist minister)



The first part of ÔÇÿThe DictatorÔÇÖs SpeechÔÇÖ in what might have been Charlie ChaplinÔÇÖs greatest role.

Charlie Chaplin: ÔÇ£IÔÇÖm sorry, but I donÔÇÖt want to be an emperor. ThatÔÇÖs not my business. I donÔÇÖt want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each otherÔÇÖs happiness ÔÇö not by each otherÔÇÖs misery. We donÔÇÖt want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned menÔÇÖs souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world ÔÇö millions of despairing men, women and little children ÔÇö victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say  do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed  the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.