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grimR
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 Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: Quotes |
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Here are a few of my favorites, I can relate to The Iraq war/Bush
| Quote: | Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
- General Smedley Butler
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Marie Beyle
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- George Washington
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
- William Cowper
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
- Noam Chomsky
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
- Brooks Atkinson
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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and this one just sums it up:
| Quote: | | Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. |
- President George Bush (The King of America)
Anyone else out there have any good politically related quotes?
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john maclean
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terrorism is the war of the poor, war is the terrorism of the rich....
/me can't remember but possibly George Benard Shaw or Peter Ustinov
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marie5
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Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. ~ Sun Tzu
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.~ Sun Tzu
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern
If we don't end war, war will end us. ~H. G. Wells
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marisse
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i don't see the point in war! it kills people and leaving ruined lives...
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Linuxis
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it ~ George Carling |
| Quote: | | It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets~Voltaire |
| Quote: | | If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates~ Howard Zinn |
| Quote: | | Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward ~ Kurt Vonnegut |
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