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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f00500dvldtc.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Reverend James</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Reverend James"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Quotes</B>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Skinny Archive"><U>Skinny Archive</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Comments"><U>Comments</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mail Archive"><U>Mail Archive</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040d2c00dvldtc.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="131ba930.jpg" border=0 width="186" height="147" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="05db55c0.gif" border=0 width="181" height="92" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Quotes</div> <div> "Better to go hungry than to feast on lies."</div> <bR> <div> "Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. "</div> <bR> <div> "Don't assume malice for what ignorance can explain." </div> <bR> <div> "If you want something you've never had before, you must do something you've never done before." </div> <bR> <div> "The beatings will continue until morale improves."</div> <bR> <div> "It's not that life is too short, It's that death is too long." </div> <bR> <div> "Only the poets who preach disorder are, in my eyes, authentic poets."</div> <bR> <div> "DRUNKENNESS (noun) : A temporary, but popular, cure for Catholicism." </div> <div> - Anonymous</div> <bR> <div> "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." </div> <div> - George Carlin </div> <bR> <div> "The problem with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around." </div> <div> - Herb Caen</div> <bR> <div> "Cop didn't see it, I didn't do it." </div> <div> - George Carlin</div> <bR> <div> "Hell must be a really swell spot because the guys who invented the religion are trying hard to keep everyone else out."</div> <div> - Al Capone </div> <bR> <div> "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" </div> <div> - Dante Hicks, <I>Clerks</I></div> <bR> <div> "The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."<I> </I></div> <div> - Harlan Ellison</div> <bR> <div> "I believe in God, only I spell it nature." </div> <div> - Frank Lloyd Wright. </div> <bR> <div> "But God will shatter the heads of his enemies..."</div> <div> - Psalms 68:21</div> <bR> <div> "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand."</div> <div> - Homer Simpson</div> <bR> <div> "If God dropped acid, would he see people?" </div> <div> - Stephen Wright</div> <bR> <div> "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." </div> <div> - Mae West </div> <bR> <div> "It's snowing still. And freezing. However, we haven't had an earthquake lately."</div> <div> - Winnie the Pooh </div> <bR> <div> "...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." </div> <div> - Dr. Seuss </div> <bR> <div> "Behold the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger...Whoever is found will be thrust through and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished."</div> <div> - Isaiah 13:9, 13:15</div> <bR> <div> "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." </div> <div> - Winston Churchill, <I>on formal declarations of war.</I> </div> <bR> <div> "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."</div> <div> - Bertrand Russell</div> <bR> <div> "If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing." </div> <div> - Anatole France</div> <bR> <div> "When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money."</div> <div> - Exodus 21:20</div> <bR> <div> "If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." </div> <div> - Lenny Bruce</div> <bR> <div> "If people are good only because they fear punishment</div> <div> and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."</div> <div> - Albert Einstein</div> <bR> <div> "The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring</div> <div> as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself</div> <div> reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it."</div> <div> - Albert Einstein</div> <bR> <div> "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."</div> <div> - Al Capone </div> <bR> <div> "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother- in-law...."</div> <div> - Matthew 10:34 (Jesus)</div> <bR> <div> "The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends."</div> <div>  - Chinese Proverb  </div> <bR> <div> "Slay and utterly destroy after them, says the Lord, and do all that I have commanded you."</div> <div> - Jeremiah 50:21</div> <bR> <div> "Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."</div> <div> - Homer Simpson</div> <bR> <div> "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell."</div> <div> - Harry S. Truman</div> <bR> <div> "A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."</div> <div> - Thomas Fuller</div> <bR> <div> "Who says I am not under the protection of God?"</div> <div>  - Adolf Hitler</div> <bR> <div> "For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."</div> <div> - Exodus 20:5</div> <bR> <div> "Religions are all alike - founded on myths and mythologies."</div> <div> -Thomas Jefferson</div> <bR> <div> "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called Religion."</div> <div> - Robert M. Pirsig</div> <bR> <div> "Religion is excellent for keeping common people quiet."</div> <div> - Napoleon</div> <bR> <div> "Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope."</div> <div> - P.J. O'Rourke<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> "Happy shall he be who takes your little ones</div> <div> and dashes them against the rock!"</div> <div> - Psalms 137:9</div> <bR> <div> "Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."</div> <div> - Sigmund Freud, <I>Future of an Illusion</I> (1927)</div> <bR> <div> "The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it."</div> <div> - Matilda Joslyn Gage,<I> Woman, Church and State</I> (1893)</div> <bR> <div> "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God; who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." </div> <div> - Gene Roddenberry </div> <bR> <div> "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." </div> <div> - Mark Twain</div> <bR> <div> "Every man has the right to go to hell by a means of his own choosing."</div> <div> - Mark Twain </div> <bR> <div> "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." </div> <div> - Henry David Thoreau (1847)</div> <bR> <div> "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." </div> <div> - Voltaire, <I>Philosophical Dictionary</I> (1764) </div> <bR> <div> "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." </div> <div> - Stephen Roberts </div> <bR> <div> "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion." </div> <div> - Karl Marx </div> <bR> <div> "There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages." </div> <div> - Richard Lederer </div> <bR> <div> "When people fear the government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty."</div> <div> - Thomas Paine</div> <bR> <div> "A democracy cannot be both ignorant and free." </div> <div> - Thomas Jefferson</div> <bR> <div> "Slavery may change its form or its name--its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity...slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs; nowadays, they are called wage earners." </div> <div> - Mikhail Bakunin, <I>Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism.</I></div> <bR> <div> "Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." </div> <div> - Henry David Thoreau</div> <bR> <div> "I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be."  </div> <div> - John Henry Mackay</div> <bR> <div> "Long before Lenin and Trotsky took power, the threat of 'Communism' and 'Anarchism' had been regularly invoked by the business-government-press complex to justify the violent suppression of attempts by working people to organize and to gain elementary rights."</div> <div> <B>- </B>Noam Chomsky</div> <bR> <div> "No postmortem journey is rife with more mystery than life."</div> <div> - <I>The Book of Counted Sorrows</I></div> <bR> <div> "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."</div> <div> - L. Ron Hubbard,<I> founder of Scientology</I></div> <bR> <div> "I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god."</div> <div> - Marilyn Manson</div> <bR> <div> "When you grow up in America things, like Christianity, water down your feelings... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?"</div> <div> - Marilyn Manson</div> <bR> <div> "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."</div> <div> - Ferdinand Magellan</div> <bR> <div> "The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church."</div> <div> - Ferdinand Magellan </div> <bR> <div> "A clarification of Christianity: Thou shalt not kill, except in the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost."</div> <div> - Xavier Cross </div> <bR> <div> "The reason I know I am God is because one day as I was praying, I realized I was talking to myself."</div> <div> - Nicholas Patterson </div> <bR> <div> "An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."</div> <div> - Samuel Butler </div> <bR> <div> "The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I can not forgive mankind."</div> <div> - Marquis de Sade </div> <bR> <div> "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."</div> <div> - John F. Kennedy</div> <bR> <div> "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."</div> <div> - Winston Churchill</div> <bR> <div> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."</div> <div> - Jules de Gaultier </div> <bR> <div> "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.  What matter where, if I be still the same, and what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least we shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, to reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:</div> <div> Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.</div> <div> - John Milton, <I>Paradise Lost</I></div> <bR> <div> "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."</div> <div> - H. L. Mencken </div> <bR> <div> "I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."</div> <div> - Oscar Wilde </div> <bR> <div> "Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance."</div> <div> - Confucius </div> <bR> <div> "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."</div> <div> - Herman Hesse </div> <bR> <div> "The problem with the world is that everyone's is a few drinks behind."</div> <div> - Humphrey Bogart </div> <bR> <div> "Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"</div> <div> - Ramsey Clark </div> <bR> <div> "I love California! I practically grew up in Phoenix."</div> <div> - Vice President Dan Quayle </div> <bR> <div> "It's a dog-eat dog world out there, Woody, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."</div> <div> - Norm Peterson (George Wendt)<I> Cheers</I></div> <bR> <div> "When it shall be said in any country in the world, 'My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive' -- when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government." </div> <div> <I>- </I>Thomas Paine</div> <bR> <div> "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="arial" >- </FONT>George W. Bush, <I>in Florence, S.C</I>. (11 Jan 2000) </div> <bR> <div> "To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by creatures that have neither the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... To be governed means that at every move, operation, or transaction one is noted, registered, entered in a census, taxed, stamped, priced, assessed, patented, licensed, authorized, recommended, admonished, prevented, reformed, set right, corrected. Government means to be subjected to tribute, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, pressured, mystified, robbed; all in the name of public utility and the general good. Then, at the first sign of resistance or word of complaint, one is repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued, hustled, beaten up, garroted, imprisoned, shot, machine-gunned, judged, sentenced, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to cap all, ridiculed, mocked, outraged and dishonored. That is government, that is its justice and its morality!</div> <div> - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon </div> <bR> <div> "What luck for the rulers that men do not think. "</div> <div> - Adolf Hitler </div> <bR> <div> "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."</div> <div> - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) </div> <bR> <div> "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." </div> <div> - Arthur C. Clarke </div> <bR> <div> "Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive." </div> <div> - Ayn Rand </div> <bR> <div> "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."</div> <div> - Martin Luther King, Jr. </div> <bR> <div> "Don't look back - something might be gaining on you." </div> <div> - Satchel Paige </div> <bR> <div> "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." </div> <div> - Socrates </div> <bR> <div> "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”</div> <div>  - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard </div> <bR> <div>  "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."</div> <div> - Friedrich Nietzsche </div> <bR> <div> "The more prohibitions there are...the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated...the more thieves and bandits there will be." </div> <div> - Lao Tzu, <I>Tao Te Ching</I> </div> <bR> <div> ". . . In the Western World the history of rebellion is inseparable from the history of Christianity." </div> <div> - Albert Camus, <I>The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt</I> </div> <bR> <div> "We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." </div> <div> - Benjamin Franklin, <I>at the signing of the Declaration of Independence</I> </div> <bR> <div> "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." </div> <div> - John Locke</div> <bR> <div>  "The obscurity in which the origin of all the present old governments is buried, implies the iniquity and disgrace with which they began....From such beginning of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? It has established itself into a trade."</div> <div>  - Thomas Paine, <I>The Rights of Man</I></div> <bR> <div>  "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church" </div> <div> - Thomas Paine, <I>Age of Reason</I></div> <bR> <div> "The enormous gap between what U.S leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology."</div> <div> - Michael Parenti</div> <bR> <div> "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there." </div> <div> - Clare Booth Luce</div> <bR> <div> "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."</div> <div> - Voltaire </div> <bR> <div> "For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground."</div> <div> - Jello Biafra </div> <bR> <div> "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." </div> <div> - John Morley </div> <bR> <div> "Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas." </div> <div> - Allan Jenkins </div> <bR> <div> "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."</div> <div>  - Noam Chomsky </div> <bR> <div> "Paranoia means having all the facts." </div> <div> - W. Boroughs </div> <bR> <div> "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it </div> <div> from religious conviction."</div> <div> - Blaise Pascal</div> <bR> <div> "All religions die of one disease, that of being found out."</div> <div> - John Morely </div> <bR> <div> "Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."</div> <div> - Sun Tzu</div> <bR> <div> "Those who put "In God We Trust" on our money, who put "under God" into our Pledge of Allegiance talk about "religious freedom." I'm not sure I know what "religious freedom" means, except that it allows the majority, the Christians, to trample the rights of us who think the Christian claim is falsehood, who think the Christian concept of morality is based mainly on the greed of the Christians." </div> <div> - Cliff Walker, <I>Positive Atheism magazine</I></div> <bR> <div> "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."</div> <div>  - Bill Hicks</div> <bR> <div> "Now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."</div> <div> - Voltaire<I>, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.</I></div> <bR> <div> “We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” </div> <div> - Philip Pullman </div> <bR> <div> "If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outlearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do." </div> <div> - Henry Rollins</div> <bR> <div> "There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way."</div> <div> - Christopher Morley</div> <bR> <div> "To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge."</div> <div> - Confucious</div> <bR> <div> "Aye, but isn't the man who chooses the bad in some way better than the man who has the good forced upon him?"</div> <div> - Alex from <I>A Clockwork Orange</I></div> <bR> <div> "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."</div> <div> - Aristotle</div> <bR> <div> "Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts." </div> <div> - Henry Rollins</div> <bR> <div> "Anarchy is the true nature of all things. Monarchy, democracy, communism, all useless forms to control the human mind. But a mind cannot be controlled. It cannot be restrained. It has no boundaries. It has its will. Anarchy is the true nature of all things..."</div> <div> - Alex Battig</div> <bR> <div> "There is no need to try to bring about anarchy; if a government is truly flawed it will destroy itself in due time."</div> <div> - Philip Musial</div> <bR> <div> " . . . what is virtue but the lack of strong temptation; better to leave us with our lie of being good." </div> <div> - Stephen Dobyns</div> <bR> <div> "I have the heart of a small boy... & I keep it in a drawer at home." </div> <div> - Robert Bloch  <I>author of Psycho</I></div> <bR> <div> "A strong people needs no leader"</div> <div> - Emiliano Zapata</div> <bR> <div> ". . . There are other ways; we know the way to make the other choice for death: unformed or broken, less than whole, puzzled, we live in a formless world.  Endless, we hope for no end. I tell you death, expect no smile of pride from me. </div> <div> I bring you nothing in my empty hands."</div> <div> - William Bronk<I> (1918-1999) </I></div> <bR> <div> "We hold these truths to be self-evident... that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it."</div> <div> -Thomas Jefferson</div> <bR> <div> "As for me, I've chosen; I will be on the side of crime & I'll help children not to gain entrance into your houses, your factories, your laws & holy sacraments, but to violate them." </div> <div> - Jean Genet</div> <bR> <div> "The professed concern for freedom of the press in the West is not very persuasive in the light of ... the actual performance of the media in serving the powerful & privileged as an agency of manipulation, indoctrination, & control. A 'democratic communications policy,' in contrast, would seek to develop means of expression & interaction that reflect the interests & concerns of the general population, & to encourage their self-education & their individual & collective action." </div> <div> - Noam Chomsky, <I>Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies </I></div> <bR> <div> "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise & I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go to that man & take him kindly & forgivingly by the hand & lead him to a quiet retired spot & kill him." </div> <div> - Mark Twain</div> <bR> <div> "Make no laws whatever concerning speech & speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; & they will refine & define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, & we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so... "</div> <div>  - Voltairine de Cleyre</div> <bR> <div> “Who is it -- throughout this endless procession of tortures which has been the history of the human race -- who is it that sheds the blood, always the same, relentlessly, without any pause for the sake of mercy? Governments, religions, industries, forced labor camps, all of these are drenched in blood."</div> <div> - Octave Mirbeau, <I>Ravachol </I></div> <bR> <div> "The most violent element in society is ignorance." </div> <div> - Emma Goldman </div> <bR> <div> "My father makes counterfeit money My mother makes synthetic gin. My sister makes love for a dollar. My god how the money rolls in. My brother's a young missionary Who saves young people from sin. He'll save you a blonde for ten dollars My god how the money rolls in . . ."</div> <div> -Vance Randolph, <I>Unprintable</I></div> <bR> <div> "No man is an island entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; & therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." </div> <div> - John Donne </div> <bR> <div> "If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged." </div> <div> - Noam Chomsky </div> <bR> <div> "If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion."</div> <div> - Edmond and Jules de Goncourt</div> <bR> <div> "I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least;' & I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly & systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, — 'That government is best which governs not at all;' & when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."</div> <div> - Henry David Thoreau, <I>On the Duty of Civil Disobedience </I></div> <bR> <div> "We are here to go, we gotta find a way off this goddamn cop- ridden planet."</div> <div> - William S. Burroughs </div> <bR> <div> "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."</div> <div>  - Denis Diderot </div> <bR> <div> "The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, & not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual."</div> <div> - Mikhail Bakunin, <I>God & the State</I></div> <bR> <div> "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: <B>It goes on.</B>"</div> <div> - Robert Frost</div> <bR> <div> "I am thinking, therefore I exist." or “I think, therefore, I am!” </div> <div> ("Cogito ergo sum," <I>original Latin text</I>)</div> <div> - Rene' Descartes,<I> Discourse on Method</I></div> <bR> <div> "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. </div> <div> Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. </div> <div> Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? </div> <div> Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" </div> <div> - Epicurus, <I>Greek philosopher </I>(341-270 B.C.)</div> <bR> <div> "The state calls its own violence law, & that of the individual, crime" </div> <div> - Max Stirner </div> <bR> <div> "If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops." </div> <div> - Kelvin Throop</div> <bR> <div> "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hard-headed realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, & county commissioners." </div> <div> - Ed Abbey</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 243 ><NOBR><div> "In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial.  Who, squatting upon the ground, </div> <div> held his heart in his hands, and ate of it.</div> <div> I said, 'Is it good, friend?'</div> <div> 'It is bitter - bitter,' he answered;</div> <div> 'But I like it, because it is bitter, and because it is my heart."</div> <div> - Stephen Crane</div> <bR> <div> "Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact </div> <div> amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these</div> <div>  will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The </div> <div> limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." </div> <div> - Frederick Douglass </div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> "It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want." </div> <div> - Harry Browne </div> <bR> <div> "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force." </div> <div> - George Washington </div> <bR> <div> "The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew governmental power attracts swarms of crooks, demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts swarms of horseflies." </div> <div> - Rick Gaber </div> <bR> <div> "For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise." </div> <div> - Harry Browne</div> <bR> <div> "Still if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."</div> <div> - Winston Churchill. </div> <bR> <div> "Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees." </div> <div> - Dolores Ibarruri</div> <bR> <div> "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." </div> <div> - Tacitus, <I>Roman senator and historian</I> (A.D. c.56 - c.115) </div> <bR> <div> "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."</div> <div> - Edward R. Morrow </div> <bR> <div> "If mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." </div> <div> - John Stuart Mill, <I>On Liberty</I><I> </I></div> <bR> <div> "Place me not with those who are weak of mind and willingly give up the rights of others, for these poor ignorant souls know not that the rights they give up are their own!" </div> <div> - Warren Friton </div> <bR> <div> "I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar."</div> <div> - Stanislaw Lem </div> <bR> <div> "Three-fourths of philosophy & literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering." </div> <div> - Gary Snyder</div> <bR> <div> "Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."</div> <div> - Thomas Aquinas, <I>Summa Theologica</I></div> <bR> <div> "Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."</div> <div> - Isaac Asimov</div> <bR> <div> "Not all who wander are lost."</div> <div> - J.R.R. Tolkien</div> <bR> <div> "We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. " </div> <div> - Bill Hicks</div> <bR> <div> "Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. "</div> <div> - Friedrich Nietzsche</div> <bR> <div> "When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free--free to think, to express my thoughts--free to live my own ideal, free to live for myself and those I loved, free to use all my faculties, all my senses, free to spread imagination's wings, free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope, free to judge and determine for myself . . . I was free!"</div> <div> - Robert Ingersoll</div> <bR> <div> "We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, & our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires & movie gods & rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." </div> <div> - Chuck Palahniuk, <I>Fight Club</I></div> <bR> <div> "If any question why we died,</div> <div> Tell them because our fathers lied."</div> <div> <I>- </I>Rudyard Kipling</div> <bR> <div> "A strong people do not need a government." </div> <div> - Emiliano Zapata</div> <bR> <div> "A great many people think that they are thinking when they are merely</div> <div> rearranging their prejudices."</div> <div>  - William James</div> <bR> <div> "One owes respect to the living. To the dead one owes only truth."</div> <div> - Voltaire </div> <bR> <div> "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be</div> <div> free."</div> <div>  - Charles Evans Hughes</div> <bR> <div> "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.</div> <div> And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect</div> <div> it."</div> <div>  - Author Unknown</div> <bR> <div> "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."</div> <div> - Henry Kissinger</div> <bR> <div> "Anarchism is a tendency in the history of human thought and action which seeks to identify coercive,  authoritarian, and hierarchic structures of all kinds and  to challenge their legitimacy and if they cannot justify  their legitimacy, which is quite commonly the case,  to work to undermine them & expand the scope of freedom."</div> <div> - Noam Chomsky</div> <bR> <div> "It must always be remembered — & remembered well — that revolution does not mean destruction only. It means destruction plus construction, with the greatest emphasis on the plus." </div> <div>  - Alexander Berkman, <I>The Russian Tragedy</I></div> <bR> <div> "Religion is what keeps the poor from killing the rich." </div> <div> <I>- </I>Napoleon</div> <bR> <div> "A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."</div> <div> - Thomas Mann </div> <bR> <div> "Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." </div> <div> - Abraham Lincoln</div> <bR> <div> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."</div> <div> - Benjamin Franklin</div> <bR> <div> “I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” </div> <div> - Anne Frank </div> <bR> <div> "The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it." </div> <div> - Goebbels </div> <bR> <div> "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."</div> <div> - Adolf Hitler</div> <bR> <div> "A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war."</div> <div> - Albert Einstein</div> <bR> <div> "It's good to be informed and make your decisions accordingly, because an uninformed democracy is not much of a democracy at all." </div> <div> - Serj Tankian</div> <bR> <div> "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" </div> <div> - Abraham Lincoln</div> <bR> <div> "When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."</div> <div> - Chief Aupumut, <I>of the Mohicans</I></div> <bR> <div> "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. This is no time . . . to keep silent."</div> <div> - Edward R. 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